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A plethora of prizes and a new festival A preview of Saturday’s books pages and a round-up of the latest news about 4 hours ago   This Saturday’s Irish Times Eason offer is the No 1 bestseller, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. When you buy the paper at any store, you can buy the book for 4.99, a saving of 5 euro. Saturday’s pages feature Darragh Geraghty’s selection of the best new audiobooks for summer; an interview by Alex Clark with Valeria Luiselli, winner of the Dublin Literary Award for Lost Children Archive; an extract from Sinead O’Connor’s new memoir, Remember...

TV Editor Tonight's telly includes a celebration of Bob Marley on the 40th anniversary of his death, star-studded awards ceremony The Brits, the return of intense docuseries Hospital, and the conclusion of Three Families . . . Pick of the Day Bob Marley: Making of a Legend, 9.00pm, Sky Arts Today is the 40th anniversary of reggae legend Bob Marley’s death, so Sky Arts are giving over two hours of dreadlocked documentary to the much-loved musician. First up, at 8pm, there’s Classic Albums: The Wailers - Catch a Fire, which looks at the making of the band’s fifth album, which brought the...

–  Professor Declan Kiberd, UCD School of English and Drama, speaking about Edna O’Brien. UCD awarded O’Brien the Ulysses Medal in 2006. To start the New Year off right, we bring you our “Arts Special” issue, featuring a plethora of interviews (and feathers in the case of hatter Philip Treacy), books, movies, and music. For what better way to while away the winter hours than by listening to some good music, reading a book or watching a great film or two? Join NetFlicks or visit your local video store and rent any movie that features Brendan Gleeson (see Lauren Byrne’s interview p...

Reimagining Ireland: 100th volume continues to map way forward for Irish studies Rich field of analysis of series that I edit casts light on shifting dimensions of Ireland’s culture about an hour ago Eamon Maher The series Reimagining Ireland began life in 2008, when the first call for proposals was sent out. The goal was to commission books that would look at all aspects of Ireland’s past and present, while also having an eye to the future.   Irish studies has blossom...

℘℘℘ When Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, the Swedish Academy noted the “lyrical beauty and ethical depth” of his work. His poems, though often suffused with allusions to Dante, Homer, and the other greats, are written with startling directness and offer intimate portraits of his life: his mother’s head “bent towards my head,” as they peel potatoes “While All The Others Were Away At Mass,” or his father crying at the funeral of his younger brother in “Mid-Term Break.” Heaney, himself, died unexpectedly at just 74, in 2013, but the inti...