Kilkenny’s Butler Gallery breaks from castle basement home
New venue opens on the eastern banks of river Nore with exhibition from photographer Amelia Stein
Irish Pages: words for a time when hope and history no longer rhyme
The current edition of Northern Ireland’s literary journal marks 20 years of the Belfast Agreement – and the overriding mood is one of disillusionment and despair
The ultimate literary bucket list: ‘1,000 Books to Read Before You Die’
US author James Mustich says the book that took him 14 years to write should be thought of as a kind of imaginary bookshop
The Nuncio and the Writer: A heart in Kilkenny, a mind on Croatia
Johnny Gogan’s biography of Hubert Butler finds this Irish George Orwell honoured by his intellectual inheritors
EU improved Anglo-Irish relations, ex-ambassador claimed
Ivor Roberts’s 2003 dispatch credited Brussels with bringing the two nations together
Nazi war criminal reportedly died in a Syrian dungeon
The fate of Alois Brunner, blamed for the death of 130,000, has always been a mystery
Diarmaid Ferriter: Brexit vote denies North’s freedom to choose
Dismissals of claims that Brexit could damage peace process are worrying
Joseph Hone: Accomplished travel writer and novelist
John Ford film gave Hone a valuable masterclass in storytelling
The trouble with what we call freedom
We like to believe that freedom and democracy are inseparable; that the toppling of a dictator means greater liberty. If only
Culture Shock: In saving Jews from the Nazis, Hubert Butler saved Ireland from shame
As we mark Holocaust Memorial Day, it’s worth remembering that what our great essayist did was illegal – not just in Nazi Europe but also in Ireland, where Jews were not allowed to compete with the Irish self-image as the Most Oppressed People Ever
Roy Foster on Hubert Butler, WB Yeats and Phineas Finn
‘The Confederation of Kilkenny in the 1640s would be a good subject for a picaresque novel full of spies and skulduggery. But as we say, it’s not my period’
Hubert Butler’s vivid insights put him among Europe’s best writers: The Appleman and the Poet
This fifth volume of work covers Russia, Yugoslavia, Kilkenny and Irish religion
Books in the bath, dancing from Dusk till dawn and other Kilkenny attractions
The Taming of the Shrew is a ghastly play but, like much else at Kilkenny Arts Festival, it’s handled with wit and made wonderful
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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