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"That They May Face The Rising Sun," the film adaptation of John McGahern's award-winning novel of the same name is expected to hit theaters in Spring 2024,

After all the doom and gloom of last autumn, when the (entirely justified) writers’ and actors’ strikes looked set to blow a hole in the 2024 awards season, normal service has been resumed. Well, sort of — the hangover from those strikes will mean some slow weeks in the early part of the year as delayed productions race to wrap. But there will be the Oscars, at which many of the prestige awards are going to be hard to call. And who knows, there may even be a few Irish winners.

The Beatles, Sean OCasey and Cillian Murphy feature among the highlights chosen by our panel of well-known people 

More Bach for the day, Christmas day coronations, when the arrogance of power married messianic presumption, John McGahern.

Censored is described as a podcast for the filthy minded. It explores banned films, books, magazines, newspapers, and cinema

In advance of his Cork gig, Noonan references such touchstones as Talking Heads, John McGahern and Oliver Sacks 

A commemoration to honour the protagonist of a memoir, written by a Scotsman who lived in Ireland for 10 years during the 1930s, was held at St Patrick’s churchyard, near Powerscourt estate, in Enniskerry on Sunday, November 27.

Shane MacGowan gave voice to an Irish-English generation, writes author Joseph O'Connor.

The University of Galway archive is an invaluable resource for anyone keen to discover more about Ireland’s greatest prose writer of the second half of the 20th century

The editors navigate in a beautifully-written introduction while producing a real map of Dublin as a literary metropolis