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President Higgins to release spoken word album

President Michael D. Higgins is set to release Against All Certainty, a new spoken word album of his poems set to music and recorded in Áras an Uachtaráin.

Music • 18 Jul

Bono added to Dalkey Book Festival line-up

Bono has been added to the line-up of this year's Dalkey Book Festival and will join his U2 band mate The Edge and Hollywood star Tom Hanks for the event in the Dublin village this June.

Bono • 02 May 23

What's on? 10 top TV and streaming tips for Monday

There's a couple of cracking documentaries in Sebastian Barry: Family Stories and The Gold: The Inside Story, psychological thriller The Catch, and the penultimate episode of Mastermind . . .

Television • 20 Mar 23

Aine Hensey in better times in the R na G Rodai (roadcaster) at the Willie Clancy Summer School (photo Ben Taylor 2019)

At home with... R na G's Áine Hensey

When I said goodbye to my colleagues on March 25 I could hardly have believed that I would barely set foot outside County Clare again until now, says R na G's music presenter Áine Hensey

Áine Hensey • 25 Aug 20

Shirley Keane: my panic purchase was a trampoline

At home with... RTÉ lyric FM's Shirley Keane

There was a lot of baking, says Shirley Keane, tersely casting a seasoned eye back to days of lockdown. Nothing too extreme, queen cakes and Victoria sponge being the height of my culinary abilities, modestly notes RTÉ lyric FM presenter.

At home with... • 15 Aug 20

Rooney Mara: effortlessly seductive and charismatic in The Secret Scripture

Rooney Mara shines in The Secret Scripture

Jim Sheridan's adaptation of Sebastian Barry's novel is engaging and competently paced, but while Rooney Mara shines as the young Rose, Vanessa Redgrave doesn't suit as the elderly counterpart who recalls her tragic life throughout.

Movie Reviews • 23 Mar 17

Star-crossed lovers: Rooney Mara as Rose and Jack Reynor as Michael in The Secret Scripture.

Jim Sheridan for The Secret Scripture IFI Q & A

Director Jim Sheridan will attend take part in a Question and Answer session at the opening night screening of his new film, The Secret Scripture, on Friday March 24 at the Irish Film Institute (IFI.)

Entertainment • 11 Mar 17

Norton - "I've started this year and it will come out next year"

Fully booked. Graham Norton writing new novel

Presenter Graham Norton has begun writing the follow-up to his best-selling debut novel Holding, with the book pencilled in for publication next year.

Television • 03 Feb 17

Barry - Days Without End hailed by Costa judges as a "searing, magnificent and incredibly moving description of how the West was won"

Sebastian Barry makes history with his second Costa win

Irish novelist and playwright Sebastian Barry has said he is "gobsmacked" at winning the Costa Book of the Year award in the UK for his book Days Without End - the first novelist to win the award twice.

Book • 01 Feb 17

Irish writer Sebastian Barry wins Costa Novel Award

Irish novelist and playwright Sebastian Barry has won the Costa Novel Award for the second time for his book Days Without End.

Entertainment • 04 Jan 17

Maggie O'Farrell: short-listed for the Costa awards

O'Farrell and Barry shortlisted for Costa Awards

Irish authors Sebastian Barry and Maggie O'Farrell have been shortlisted for the 2016 Costa Novel Award for their books Days Without End and This Must Be The Place.

Entertainment • 23 Nov 16

Rooney Mara and Jack Reynor star in Jim Sheridan's adaptation of The Secret Scripture

First trailer lands for Jim Sheridan's Secret Scripture

The first trailer for Jim Sheridan's adaptation of Sebastian Barry's Man Booker nominated and best-selling novel, The Secret Scripture is finally here.

Entertainment • 16 Nov 16

Audrey Magee: short-listed for Walter Scott Prize

Barry, Magee on longlist for Walter Scott Prize

Irish novelists Sebastian Barry and Audrey Magee feature on the long-list for this year’s Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction.

Entertainment • 26 Feb 15

Rooney Mara Ireland-bound for Secret Scripture

Rooney Mara is to star in Jim Sheridan's film of Sebastian Barry's Man Booker-shortlisted The Secret Scripture, with shooting due to begin in Ireland in September.

Entertainment • 25 Jul 14

Sebastian Barry