Except for Dublin, no city has played a greater role in the development of Irish literature than the French capital Paris. It’s hard to believe ...

This is a fascinating tribute to Richard Ellmann, the son of Jewish immigrants from Romania and Ukraine, and James Joyce’s ...

Chappell Roan has her own illustrated biography, courtesy of A Little Golden Book. The book, authored by Cat Reynolds and ...

James Hand’s is one of the many “reconstructed lives” documented by historian Averill Earls in the new book Love in the Lav: ...

There are a glut of new Oasis books out due to the reunion, but, asks Fergal Kinney, how is the band's shocking decline in ...

Galway-based author Elaine Feeney's debut novel was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year, long-listed for the Booker Prize ...

She subsequently suffered a series of debilitating minor strokes. In her “twilight years”, her declining memory and frailty meant that she appeared little in public. The death of Denis in 2003 was a ...

The BBC’s Last Warrior-Statesman: Sir Richard Francis and the Battle to Save the Corporation from Thatcher — and Itself by ...

A US trailer has been released for the Irish romantic drama, Four Letters of Love , featuring a great cast that includes Pierce Brosnan , Helena Bonham Carter , Gabriel Byrne , Ann Skelly and Fionn ...

How Richard Ellmann’s capacious 1959 biography shaped modern life writing.

An author using an introduction to try to justify a book’s very existence is an uninspiring start to proceedings, writes Sean ...

The book includes cameos from presidents including ... through Robert Polner and Michael Tubridy’s excellent biography, “An Irish Passion for Justice: The Life of Rebel New York Attorney ...