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Jonny Herman is a burgeoning artist from the UK who has been marching to the beat of his own drum since a young age. With a lifelong passion for rhythm

Maggie Armstrong is a former journalist turned author who lives in Dublin with her two children. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in the Dublin Review, The Stinging Fly and Banshee.

Cook it: The Dublin Cookery School is kicking off its Summer BBQ Series with an Indian cuisine focus on May 18. The menu for the course (€195) takes inspiration from the flavours of tandoor-style cooking and street-food grilling and includes dishes such as chapati and tikka platters, mango masala pickle and caramelised pineapple and pistachio kulfi. A big emphasis will be put on high-quality ingredients, the importance of marination, and how to replicate the tandoor-quality grilling seen in pr...

A dozen short stories are linked by a protagonist called Margaret, who is hapless, often bewildered, at times mean. You will love her

Irish booksellers highlight some of the best holiday reads you can find in bookshops across the country

Ferdia Lennon, Maggie Armstrong Alan Murrin, Oisín McKenna, Rebecca Ivory and Aimée Walsh tell us about their first books

New novels by Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín and Marian Keyes are among the works in the pipeline, along with eagerly anticipated debuts by Ferdia Lennon and Scott McKendry

The line-up of bands for a seafood and wine festival has been announced.