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Colin Farrell says the Irish “punch above our weight” in the movie industry.

The 2024 edition of the Irish Film Festa, the festival dedicated to Irish cinema and culture, will take place at Rome’s Casa del Cinema from 4 to 7 April.

Dublin City Univerisity’s School of English is hosting two commemorative evenings in April on DCU's St Patrick's campus for two of Ireland’s most acclaimed writers, John McGahern and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney.

Political journalist Michael O’Regan, who has died at the age of 70, reported on the 1984 Kerry Babies controversy and served as a parliamentary correspondent with The Irish Times for many years, as well as being a regular broadcaster on radio and television.

The Rubrics, which is 320 years old, has reopened after €12.5m renovation

Patrick Joyce explores his own family history from the west of Ireland in Mayo to industrial Britain

Dublin International Film Festival: the star of the opening film, Sade Malone, spoke about moving to Dublin as a baby before getting back across the Irish Sea

Sinéad O’Riordans film was partly filmed at Páirc Uí Chaoimh, and is one of several movies with Cork links at Dublin International Film Festival, writes Esther McCarthy

This well-written and accessible study demonstrates how the work of John McGahern continues to fascinate and draw new readers

Mike McCormack seems to be tuned in to a different cosmic frequency than the rest of us. Whilst almost all of his work begins in a small, sleepy village in County Mayo on the west coast of Ireland, he has a unique way of making familiar landscapes and usually quiet lives extraordinary and surreal.