Paul Mason’s ambitious history of communism is driven by the author’s frustration with a strand of leftism, more evident now ...

As Ireland is gripped by famine, the woman dubbed “The Princess of Connemara” is faced, like the Martins before her, with a ...

This is a history book about the future. That’s how volcanologist Bill McGuire introduces his latest title on the climate ...

Three cailíní from Cork on the top deck, standing, pressed against the front window, prime position for what they intend to ...

Téa Obreht’s fourth novel, Sunrise, is a propulsive metafiction with an ambitious structure; three protagonists in three time ...

Hearing these lines, spoken by Richard, Duke of Gloucester, in Shakespeare’s Richard III, creates an immediate riddle in the ...

Before embarking on Middlemen, Laura McGrath thought of literary agents as money-grubbing, “marginally intelligent” ...

In his protagonist, there are echoes of the novelist reconciled to the limits of artistic endeavour as a force for change ...

An Irish woman was found dead at a house in a suburb near Melbourne, Australia, on Friday morning. A statement from Victoria ...

Acclaimed Irish theatre director Patrick Sutton, who worked with the Gaiety Theatre and Smock Alley, died on Thursday. Paying ...

It is now 46 matches since Arsenal lost at home to a promoted side and there was never any doubt about the result as soon as ...

Plenty to cover at Dalymount Park as Bohemians kept pace with St Patrick’s Athletic in pursuit of Shamrock Rovers at the top ...