I was suffering from burnout - then I decided to farm 12 sheep. I emerged a new person
Award-winning author and film producer John Connell says he now sees that art is not something reserved just for the city
Award-winning author and film producer John Connell says he now sees that art is not something reserved just for the city
Philip King believes the film may have touched people 'because everything is so virtual, augmented and artificial now, whereas this is tactile, human, visceral'
Hugh Linehan: Stanley Kubrick said a film should be more like music than like fiction. The Irish director Pat Collins knows why that matters
An Cailín Ciúin fans should start queueing now. Pat Collins has made an exquisite adaptation of John McGahern’s final novel
Director Pat Collins discusses his influences and his award-winning adaptation of McGahern’s final novel
In a Word: Not only had he written an ‘problematic’ novel but he had also married a Finnish woman
Martin Neary has permission to be buried on his own lands in Co Mayo when he dies
Irish people like it to be known that we are not overly impressed by fame
John McGahern’s fiction offers a perspective suffused with spiritual meaning
An Irishman’s Diary: Frank McNally on a sombre visit to McGahern Country
A fresh and sensitive perspective on an awful period in Ireland’s collective history
Up to half a million British people are becoming Irish citizens. They help us to recognise our own past
The Cootehall barracks where he slept as a boy is now a vibrant community facility
‘The worst thing about cocooning was the feeling that it would never end’
Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film
Before I moved to Tasmania, or trained for priesthood, there was that summer on a Leitrim farm
30 years ago it seemed like the whole of Ireland burst out on to the streets at the same time
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Golf clubs likely to be among first venues to re-open but it may test our solidarity
The most sustainable choice of all could also be a good investment
Barry McCormack looks beyond Dublin for his brilliant, almost-concept album Mean Time
Broadcaster’s tapestries, paintings among pieces in Sotheby’s auction of Irish works
The author Colm Tóibín discusses female Irish novelists, families, and when he wishes he had a TV
We hear about TV’s current Golden Age but Family was as great as anything today
News, views and opinions from Student Hub contributors and Irish Times writers
‘Guardians of the GAA’ charts the history of the force’s involvement in Gaelic Games
The authoritarian version of Catholicism is over. In other forms it is alive and well
Many are privately unchurched as they resent hegemony of church authorities
Former Senator and TD had intended campaigning for repeal of Eight Amendment
In Conversation: actors Peter Coonan and Marie Mullen
Self-confessed shelf addict John Boyne checks out how fellow authors like to stack
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices