Author Naoise Dolan is the inaugural IPUT Writer-in-Residence at Wilton Park in Dublin, awarded on an annual basis to a ...

Why should you take an interest in this particular railway journey?” the narrator of Emma Donoghue’s new novel asks the ...

Irish is useless and badly taught. Gaeilgeoirí are snobs. The modh coinníollach owes me money. Peig Sayers punched me in the ...

Stylist is an agenda-setting media brand and advocate leading the charge for women. We know there isn’t a one-size-fits-all conversation – we celebrate and reflect our differences, while using ...

"Compulsory creative writing” is a phrase I thought I’d never encounter. But I ­underestimated the ingenuity of the ­Department of Education. The proposal for Leaving Cert ­English students ...

The Irish-Americans are mad keen to be Irish, or so the stereotype goes. Mary McCarthy’s Memories of a Catholic Girlhood, first published in the US in 1957 as the Kennedys brought Irish ...

Writer Naoise Dolan has travelled the world after success with her bestsellers Exciting Times and The Happy Couple, but is returning back to Dublin as she spends this year as the inaugural IPUT ...

Book of the Week. Using historical figures from ancient Greece to present day, historian Naoise Mac Sweeney interrogates the myth of the west and its exclusively European origins. Is 'Plato to ...