How much Beckett can one man take? Denis McClean goes to Venice to find out
For a while, I felt locked out from the mystifying text
Samuel Beckett
Signed Samuel Beckett books and Pride and Prejudice among rare treasures for sale
Stirrings Still by Samuel Beckett, with illustrations by Louis le Brocquy, and second edition of Pride and Prejudice among this week’s finds
Not so simple: Alison Healy on errant behaviour by fans at a recent Paul Simon gig
People were standing up to leave. I longed to interrogate them
‘Indecent’ Ulysses: The British ban and how it was lifted
James Joyce reportedly said he wanted his books to keep the critics busy for 300 years. His most famous one kept the British post office and customs busy until 1936
The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon: ‘When my father died there was no great mourning, as I’d been doing it for a decade’
The Divine Comedy songwriter on his journey from pop star to accidental country gent and why he’s ‘less willing to put on a happy face’
Séamas O’Reilly: ‘As I’ve grown older I’ve realised how formative the Troubles were’
Author’s debut novel, Prestige Drama, channels humour, anger and sadness in story about a TV show set during the Troubles
Marita Conlon-McKenna: ‘I write what I see and what I feel. I can sense things. I always have’
Our senses lead a pathway to what’s going on in a story, says the bestselling author
A new Wild Atlantic Way? How nine ‘literary routes’ could form a map of Irish writing
The proposed ‘Literary Ways’ criss-crossing Border counties highlight writers from WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney to Nell McCafferty and Lisa McGee
Éamon de Valera in Ballsbridge, ‘Sam A Barclay Beckett’ in Foxrock: Who was where 100 years ago?
Details on public figures and their whereabouts and families are contained in the 1926 Census
The Irish Proust: A fascinating search for a creature that may not be mythical after all
Clues to its existence abound, from the works of Bowen to Behan
Dearly imparted: Frank McNally on Paddy the philanthropist, the BBC banning of Clannad, and Beckett’s womb with a view
Might Paddy Dear be persuaded to throw a few million our way, for the relief of distress in dear old Ireland?
Jürgen Habermas lived to see a return of the fascist ghosts he once helped exorcise
The German philosopher, who has died aged 96, was young enough to carry no culpability for the Nazi era yet old enough to carry lifelong scars
Next Year Will Be a Good One by Shivaun O’Casey: Life in the benevolent shadow of Seán O’Casey
More important than any encomium from this quarter, Seán O’Casey’s daughter diligently captures his life and legacy
Brought to book: Alison Healy on some unwise rejections of authors’ manuscripts by publishers
An American publisher dismissed them as unfunny, senseless and dull
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