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Eoin O Brien's Graduation photograph, circa 1963

From Asclepius to Beckett: John Banville on Eoin O'Brien

In his new memoir, A Life in Medicine: From Asclepius to Beckett, Eoin O'Brien, an Irish cardiologist and clinical scientist of international repute, offers a vivid portrait of life in medicine and literature.

Books • 22 May 23

Sunday Miscellany Arts Council Special: John Banville

Sunday Miscellany • 22 May 22

Back in Black: John Banville talks to RTÉ Arena

RTÉ Arena • 12 Nov 21

April in Spain: John Banville's new thriller reviewed

Books • 04 Oct 21

Megan Nolan publishes her debut novel, Acts Of Desperation, this spring

A new leaf - new Irish books for 2021

Irish fiction continues to thrive and the year will be a feast of novels and shorts stories ready for publication, some of them deferred from 2020.

Books • 11 Jan 21

The Book Show: Banville on Butler, and imaginary must-reads

On The Book Show on RTÉ Radio 1 this week, John Banville tells us why we should read the essays of Hubert Butler.

The Book Show • 23 Nov 20

Lisa O'Neill features in the new series of The Works Presents

The Works Presents returns - artists and the new reality

The Works Presents with John Kelly returns on November 19th with a new five-part series on RTÉ One...

the works presents • 16 Nov 20

Shelf Analysis: John Banville talks to Rick O'Shea

To celebrate the 50th episode of Shelf Analysis, Rick talks to an author for whom "they need no introduction" actually applies - John Banville, who has just published his latest novel, Snow.

Shelf Analysis • 02 Nov 20

Snow by John Banville - read an extract

RTÉ Culture are delighted to present an extract from John Banville's Snow.

Books • 17 Oct 20

John Banville: expertly multi-layered whodunnit

Reviewed: Snow by John Banville

With Christmas fast approaching and the locality falling under an increasing blanket of snow, the apparent tranquillity of Ballyglass House is shattered by the barbaric murder of the local priest in John Banville's latest novel, Snow.

Books • 15 Oct 20

John Banville: Isabel and after in Mrs Osmond

Reviewed: Mrs Osmond by John Banville

Isabel Archer, the protagonist of Henry James' best-known novel, The Portrait of a Lady comes back to life in John Banville's sequel, now out in paperback.

Books • 10 Jul 18

Atwood, Donoghue & Enright for UCD Irish-Canadian literary fest

Handmaids Tale author Margaret Atwood is among the authors set to feature in Imagining: Home - a two-day literary festival celebrating the connections between Canada and Ireland, taking place at UCD Dublin from March 1-2.

Culture • 21 Feb 18

Artist Anton Hallmann talks about his re-imagined cover designs for six classic Irish novels.

In The Picture: Irish literary classics reimagined

To celebrate Ireland's status as a nation of storytellers, international hotel group Radisson Blu commissioned artist Anton Hallmann to take six iconic 20th-century Irish novels and re-imagine their cover design.

visual arts • 07 Feb 18

John Banville talks to Miriam - the struggle with language

'The struggle with language has been my life's torment and my life's passion.'

Books • 17 Oct 17

Henry James once considered writing a sequel to The Portrait of a Lady but Banville has beaten him to it.

Reviewed: Mrs Osmond by John Banville

Isabel Archer, the protagonist of Henry James' best-known novel, The Portrait of a Lady comes back to life in John Banville's sequel which takes the story further in London, Paris, Florence and Rome.

Books • 03 Oct 17

John Banville: continuing the story of Isabel Archer as she goes about a reckoning on her travels through Europe.

John Banville and The James Gang - sequelizing a literary classic

Mrs Osmond, John Banville's sequel to The Portrait of a Lady takes the story from the conclusion of the previous tale. "I wanted also to write it so it could be read by people who hadn't read Portrait of a Lady," the author tells Paddy Kehoe.

Books • 02 Oct 17

Prague Nights by Benjamin Black - read an exclusive extract

Dead in Dún Laoghaire preview - read the opening chapter to the latest thriller from Benjamin Black, AKA John Banville.

Books • 17 Jul 17

Remembering Aidan Higgins, one year on

Culture • 27 Dec 16

The eponymous Pigín of Howth, by Kathleen Watkins and Margaret Anne Suggs - a must for kids this Christmas

Books To Buy This Xmas, Part Two

In-house bibliophile Paddy Kehoe continues his list of Christmas book selections - we've already had his fiction recommendations, now Paddy delves into the non-fiction pile.

Culture • 09 Dec 16

John Banville: Wexford I Hardly Knew You

John Banville's Time Pieces - A Dublin Memoir

John Banville's affair with his adopted Dublin is celebrated with ease and affection in this new 200-page work, which includes photographs by acclaimed photographer Paul Joyce.

Reviews • 15 Nov 16

John Banville

From Asclepius to Beckett: John Banville on Eoin O'Brien

Sunday Miscellany Arts Council Special: John Banville

Back in Black: John Banville talks to RTÉ Arena

April in Spain: John Banville's new thriller reviewed

A new leaf - new Irish books for 2021

The Book Show: Banville on Butler, and imaginary must-reads

The Works Presents returns - artists and the new reality

Shelf Analysis: John Banville talks to Rick O'Shea

Snow by John Banville - read an extract

Reviewed: Snow by John Banville

Reviewed: Mrs Osmond by John Banville

Atwood, Donoghue & Enright for UCD Irish-Canadian literary fest

In The Picture: Irish literary classics reimagined

John Banville talks to Miriam - the struggle with language

Reviewed: Mrs Osmond by John Banville

John Banville and The James Gang - sequelizing a literary classic

Prague Nights by Benjamin Black - read an exclusive extract

Remembering Aidan Higgins, one year on

Books To Buy This Xmas, Part Two

John Banville's Time Pieces - A Dublin Memoir

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