Rebecca S Miller’s account of the Irish showband era is fluent, authoritative and free of either nostalgia or embarrassment ...

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Paul Rainey’s follow-up to Why Don’t You Love Me?, 1653 book The Compleat Angler revisited, queer love, teen angst and more ...

The play was first performed in 2003, at the National Theatre in London, where David Tennant took on the role of Katurian, ...

“Basically it is about trust,” he says. “I felt that my director, Johnny Depp, trusted me very much. That is what it is all ...

After he won Channel 4’s So You Think You’re So Funny in 1997 (Tommy Tiernan won it a year earlier), the English comedian ...

Interface’s This Too Will Pass, at the Carrolls salmon hatchery, and Funeral for Ashes, by Conor Maloney and John Conneely ...

Eanna Ní Lamhna answers queries on blue tits, navelwort, uniquely Irish butterfies, dogfish egg cases and a pipistrelle bat ...

Sarah Moss, Joseph O’Connor, Wendy Erskine, John Banville, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and other authors and reviewers choose their top ...

Joseph Grogan, Screggan, Tullamore, on whose land this year’s National Ploughing Championships will take place, died in April ...

At least six people have died and 20 girls attending a summer camp were reported missing in Texas after heavy rain caused ...

Park life. St Patrick’s Athletic turn their attention to European football without a win in six matches. The 4,919 crowd ...