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While many of us have been bunkered down for the winter, protecting ourselves from the elements in the best way we can, Fidelma Kelly spent the time in her Rosslare home perfecting the plot for her latest novel, One More Time. Set in Italy and Ireland, Fidelma’s adopted home features heavily in her third novel; with a love rival from Broadway, a Christmas spent in Ferrycarrig and Kilmore, and a number of scenes in Ballyhealy all featuring.

Gail Bell asks experts and people in the public eye what keeps them going. This week: traditional folk artist and writer, Jane Cassidy

Playwright, novelist and academic Thomas Kilroy, who has died at the age of 89, was one of the most distinguished Irish dramatists and authors of modern times.

Three newly published Irish authors, taking on a new career in their sixties and seventies, tell Erin McCafferty why it’s never too late to follow your dreams

The immense silhouette proudly dominated the Harland & Wolff shipyard in Belfast. The White Star Line’s newest, most opulent and most expensive ocean liner, built by its 15,000-strong workforce, was set to be launched. The work had been gruelling, the days long — 60 hours per week — but there was a pride in the work: they had built the biggest, the best, vessel in the world.