Poet and editor Nessa O’Mahony talks to Sue Leonard.

By Martin Tyrrell * In late 1937, George Orwell reviewed Mairin Mitchell’s Storm Over Spain, along with several other books on the Spanish conflict, for Time and Tide. His comments on the Mitchell bo...

Eavan Boland leads a workshop for women writers at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre.

The nature and forms of control, and the limitless consequences when control is lost – these are Farrelly’s preoccupations.

Contributors to The Lonely Crowd choose the books they have most enjoyed this year. Part Three follows on Friday. Karys Frank Sarah Hall’s Helm, a gale of a novel in which the Helm wind is personif…

Tanya Farrelly reads from her new collection The Marionette and the Maestro (Arlen House).

The funeral of social justice campaigner and Focus Ireland founder Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, who died aged 86, will be held in Dublin this afternoon.