Patrick Radden Keefe’s book London Falling has become a huge bestseller — the true story of 19-year-old Zac Brettler, who got involved with a criminal underworld before jumping to his death in 2019. F...

Public speech was a – if not the – defining attribute of maleness. A woman speaking in public was, in most...

Covering the writer’s late teens and early twenties, this pleasurable read is an elegant account of self-development through art

Minister addresses Fianna Fáil ardfheis in Dublin as party braces itself for possible double byelection loss

I have long been a fan of Mary Costello’s fiction, from her award-winning first novel, Academy Street, which charts the deeply affecting story of a quiet woman’s life, to Barcelona, an excellent co…

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Best Friends by Andrew Meehan, a gentle, off-kilter tale about a late-life love, is a joy to read

The beautiful youth Wilde blamed for his downfall ended up a ‘stooped old man’ in Hove

In Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, an ordinary boy’s deadly obsession with the ultrarich reveals deeper corruption at the heart of modern London.

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Moya Brennan, best known as the lead singer of the Grammy and BAFTA-winning group Clannad, died peacefully yesterday, surrounded by her family, at the age of 73.

High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy.

The US writer has found that getting answers involves brass neck persistence and blunt rejection, to which he has happily become immune

Tommy Tiernan is joined by John Mulaney, Leah Hayden Cassidy, Eamonn Sweeney, with music from The Olympia Quartet. Watch The Tommy Tiernan Show S10E15 on RTÉ Player for free

Carrie Crowley and Ruth Bradley are among the Irish actors who have joined the cast of Walk the Blue Fields, an Andrew Scott and Emily Blunt-starring adaptation of the Claire Keegan short story of the...

We’re at the bitter end of March, and here to usher in the closing of the dreary winter, and welcome in the tidings of April, there are more than a few big books arriving on this new books Tu…

New short story collection ranges over territories familiar to Tóibín’s readers: Wexford, Catalonia, Argentina and the US

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