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With full live performance still on hold, our writers recall concerts that will stay with them forever

  In Saturday’s books pages, Keith Ridgway talks to John Self about A Shock, his first book in a long time; Anne MacManus talks to Una Mullally about her debut novel, Mother Mother; and David O’Doherty talks to Patrick Freyne about his new children’s book. Reviews are Una Mullally on Rememberings by Sinéad O’Connor; Niamh Donnelly on Trouble by Philip Ó Ceallaigh; Catherine Taylor on the best new fiction in translation; Kevin Gildea on The Stranger Times by CK McDonne...

Serial pleasures: The TV series that got us through lockdown May 8, 2021 7 min read What was the series that you binged during lockdown? From zombies to racing cars to robots battling monsters; our writers reveal their pandemic bingeing   KINGDOM Kingdom was my household’s escape from Covid for a while last year. The visually stunning Korean zombie series from writer Kim Eun-hee and director Kim Seong-hun tells the story of an infectious outbreak during the Joseon Dynasty. Unlike the Covid...

Could we care less about people who care? At some point we all need care. Why is it so undervalued? about 3 hours ago   We all start life needing care. If we live long enough, many of us end up needing care and at some point in the middle we will likely be responsible for the care of others. Care and caring should be at the centre of how we think about our culture, but it’s frequently treated as an afterthought or an aberration. We are strangely in denial about how much caring work is requi...

Cúirt Festival focuses on reading boost during pandemic Updated / Saturday, 24 Apr 2021 07:25 Western Correspondent The Cúirt International Festival of Literature is under way in Galway, with a focus on how the pandemic has impacted creativity and boosted reading during the last year. For the second year in a row, all events are being held online, but organisers say this years programme has been born of the opportunity brought about by public health restrictions and lockdowns. Festival Direc...

Shortlists for Dalkey Literary Awards 2021 revealed €30,000 prize fund for Irish writers to be awarded at Dalkey Book Festival in June about 4 hours ago Previous Image   The vitality and variety of contemporary Irish writing is reflected in two remarkably strong shortlists for this year’s Dalkey Literary Awards. The field for the €20,000 Novel of the Year award includes Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award in ...

My 4-year-old daughter is into princesses. Really into princesses. I have given the Princess Industrial Complex more money than I’d like to admit to keep those episodes of “Elena of

Any article that calls Prince Andrews a “sweatless creep” is worth reading. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. With the British monarchy currently under the spotlight due to the massively publicised shenanigans of Meghan and Harry’s tell-all interview on Oprah, we absolutely must stop and listen to what the Irish think of it all. The Irish, famously, have some thoughts on the British royals. And this c...

March 9, 2021 My 4-year-old daughter is into princesses. Really into princesses. I have given the Princess Industrial Complex more money than I’d like to admit to keep those episodes of “Elena of Avalor” coming. It isn’t as bad as I feared it would be. These are not the helpless princesses of my youth, yearning for their prince to come. These princesses are feminists. They fight, do magic and ride flying creatures, all while wearing sparkly ball gowns. They are also a racially diverse ...

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