The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex
‘I felt like his story hadn’t been told,’ Ebs Burnough says about his Truman Capote documentary
An Irishman’s Diary
New book recounts the life and times of Muhammad Ali’s famous cornerman
Star was nominated for six Emmys for his role as Artie on The Larry Sanders Show
A sneak preview of Saturday’s books pages
Janan Ganesh: The crash just brought to the surface what was already extant and pumping
‘On Christmas Eve there was always a sherry reception for the customers’
With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?
America at Large: The professor of mathematics became a backgammon master before hitting the poker tables
It’s wrong to have amateur sportsmen being near obligated to pretend abuse is all part of game
Warren Beatty, a true Hollywood maverick, sets the record straight on his six-decade-long career and the state of cinema today
Pulitzer prize winning journalist and writer fell foul of conservative New York GAA mafia
Where to now after one of the most corrosive US presidential elections in history
16,000 sing 37-year-old’s name at 5am in Manchester as sport continues to blossom
Analysis: Irish fighter now fully cognisant of quality of tall American rival
Irish anti-abortion campaigners should stop basing their case on a wild untruth
Studies show that swearing eases pain, is cathartic, helps bonding and lets off destructive steam... but beware of overuse, lest you lessen the effect
‘A Brief History of Seven Killings’ is based on attempt to kill reggae king Bob Marley
The three times US poet laureate is in residence at the Kilkenny Arts Festival
Tom McCarthy’s ‘Satin Island’ is the highlight of a varied and intriguing selection
Doctorow was born in New York and named after American writer Edgar Allen Poe
War writing at heart is about the ambivalence of loyalty to class, nation, and friends, and of belief and the business of being human, and more recent Irish writing on the Great War, in reopening a closed chapter in our history, is no different in exploring all those ambiguities
The biggest and richest fight in boxing to finally take place at the MGM Grand on May 2nd
Alain de Botton explains the thinking that prompted him to marshal leading writers into closed organisations
‘Not a single respected critic spoke up for him. He was 40-1 with some bookmakers and nearly every expert feared for his safety against the monster that was Foreman’
‘Learn the word for everything and remember them. Learn the rules and forget them’
If you doubt your characters, your readers will doubt them too, so it is important to understand characters’ motivation and make their behaviour and speech convincing
Review: The deterioration of Behan’s health and talent during his three-year love affair with the US is the subject of a fascinating book
What writing trends have struck you lately? Pornography! I’m astounded at how many women want to read explicit descriptions of sex.
‘I watch some crazy clips of myself from back then and I can say that I probably wasn’t sane for a period in my life’
From the realistic (books, video games, DVDs) to the less so (Rothko Painting No 1, Bond’s Aston Martin), ‘Irish Times’ writers reveal what’s on their Santa lists
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
