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An Irish made film, directed by a Sligo filmmaker, described as a ‘dark Irish fairytale’ has been awarded Best Feature Film at the New Jersey Film Festival.

New Irish Writing, the competition that helped launch the careers of a galaxy of authors including Anne Enright, Colum McCann, Joseph O'Connor and Claire Keegan, is hosted by the Irish Independent.

Irish artist Robert Ballagh was born on September 22, 1943, in Dublin and is famous for his hyperrealistic renderings of well-known Irish figures. The Irish artist Robert Ballagh is perhaps most famous for designing the Riverdance set.

It is something to remember that Paul Hill, a Guildford Four member who spent 15 years in jail for an IRA bombing that he did not commit, said, "Irish people...

A Sligo woman has been nominated for a top literary award. Shelia Armstrong from Rosses Point has been nominated for the 44th annual Hennessey Awards for her short story entitled ‘Skins’. Shelia is 25 years-old and is a graduate after studying in Dublin. Since finishing her studies, Shelia has worked as a freelance editor. The […]

My father’s green hunting jacket still had his smell on it. It was way too big for me so I had to roll up the sleeves three times before my hands could see daylight. The last time I saw him wearing it was when he took me to Crick’s Bend, where the salmon were all funnelled into a stream only a couple of yards wide. Easy pickings but we didn’t catch anything. He’d gotten too tired and we came away after only a half an hour. He coughed all the way back to the car. That was probably the la...

There is a young woman, wrong, there is not. She’s not yet an adult, but she’s not still a child. She’s in her teens. She wants to consider herself an adult, let it be that she’s accorded that. Begin again. There is a young adult sitting beneath a tree under a grey-blue sky. There may be a seven-week-old foetus buried inside her, there may be not. What’s to be said about the tree? Well, first, this is no wind-shook sapling. It’s immense, measured against the young adult, who’s no ...