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Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has secured planning permission for a €9m revamp of its Rubrics building which featured in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People. The imposing Rubrics – which can be seen by campus visitors as they enter TCD through its College Green pedestrian entrance – was built between 1699 and 1702 and is the oldest surviving building on the TCD city centre campus. Some of its former residents include one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers, the late John McGahern, and former Fianna Fáil finance minister Brian Lenihan who died in 2011. Earlier this year,...

  Not the least of our losses in this plague year was one of our greatest poets, Derek Mahon. Washing Up (Gallery Press) is a glorious late harvest - vigorous, funny, angry, blithe - beautifully produced, like all Gallery editions, and including, appropriately, a lovely tribute to another luminary of the dead poets' society, Ciaran Carson. Mahon's last is vividly alive. Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters, edited by Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten (Thames & Hudson) is a judicious selection from the magnificent six-volume Complete Letters of 2009. Had he not been a pain...

  To see it written about now, you might almost think it was a political screed, but in fact it was what its author called more of "a little elegy, a love song to my native land", plainly but gorgeously written. There was "Kate, the obedient one, the incurable romantic, and Baba, her alter ego, determined to smash the conventions and defy the strictures of church, priests, nuns and parenthood," she later wrote. "I was, in a sense, both of those girls, though I kept the rebellious side of my nature a secret. My crime, however, did catch up with me."

Bookselling in a pandemic: Kennys Bookshop celebrates 80 years in business Sarah Kenny describes running the bookshop her grandparents founded and the challenges they faced in 2020. By Sarah Kenny Saturday 12 Dec 2020, 7:00 PM Dec 12th 2020, 7:00 PM 19,021 Views 11 Comments Sarah Kenny IF THERE IS a positive story to come from the Covid-19 crisis, it is that people a...