Making The Ballroom of Romance in Co Mayo: ‘Even passing it today, I still think I can hear the music in it’
In this series, Rosita Boland visits places in Ireland where films were made and assesses the legacy they left behind
Latest articles about William Trevor
In this series, Rosita Boland visits places in Ireland where films were made and assesses the legacy they left behind
Wexford Festival Opera: Young cast cope well with demands of Andrew Synnott’s music
A fresh and sensitive perspective on an awful period in Ireland’s collective history
Raised by the Village teaches us we should all be socialists in order to raise teenagers
Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more
US author James Mustich says the book that took him 14 years to write should be thought of as a kind of imaginary bookshop
As everything turns a deathly brown, it feels unpatriotic to favour any other season
Paul Simon’s last Irish concert the RDS Dublin will be an intense, emotional evening
From Yeats and Maud Gonne to Daniel and Majella, romantic Ireland isn't dead and gone
Film star Grace Kelly's roots prompted her to collect Irish literature, including rare editions of Joyce, Beckett and Shaw
Irish Times Blook Club: Novelist has chronicled the family across a century of troubled Irish history
Eileen Battersby reviews The Long-Winded Lady, Maeve Brennan’s New Yorker sketches, as part of our extensive coverage marking today's centenary of her birth
Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture
He could always reinvent and refresh his imagination and surprise his readers in story after story, novel after novel
Late writer commended for ‘wonderful contribution to literature and Ireland’
Trevor was a world class writer who chronicled the lives of the forgotten, the despairing losers, the innocent and the devious, the lonely and the unloved
Obituary: Writer of ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ and novelist made Irish themes universal
Writer was born in Mitchelstown in Co Cork and educated at Trinity College Dublin
If the academy wanted to honour a music icon, Paul Simon would be a better choice
John Ford film gave Hone a valuable masterclass in storytelling
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped up
How a retired book-collecting Sligo GP managed to get a copy of DH Lawrence’s banned book while still at school
Ahead of this year’s Dublin Book Festival, we ask some of the participating authors to tell us the stories behind the books in their personal collections
‘Our world is better for having had Brian Friel in it and now seems a lot smaller’
Aosdána honour given by President Higgins for singular, sustained distinction in arts
Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction
Eimear McBride, Jennifer Johnston and Kevin Barry are some of the names that have been suggested in response to the Arts Council’s call for nominees for its new three-year, €150,000 role. The judges will announce their decision in January
‘New Yorker’ writer Roger Angell is the game’s undisputed poet laureate
Barrett is just second Irish winner of the €25,000 prize, after Edna O’Brien
Hall immortalised by writer William Trevor now reinvented as tourist attraction
When Yiyun Li left China, at the age of 24, she couldn’t speak English. Now, nearly two decades later, she is recognised as one of its most perceptive contemporary writers
This masterful writer’s rural-Ireland background invariably emerges from her sophisticated portraits of female sensibility
Munro’s genius is in the short story, and that is what makes her winning the Nobel Prize for Literature so exciting
‘It is not easy to like,’ the candid author says of her latest novel, the Booker-shortlisted ‘The Lowland’
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