Celebrated Belfast born singer Brian Kennedy grew up in the Troubles and in recent years due to a cancer battle he successfully fought, he's faced some troubles of his own. Now he's back to take Manhattan.
This week Ireland's Druid theatre company returns to New York with Richard III, a play that's over 400 years old but that feels like it's been ripped from the headlines.
Like a lot of people, Brexit has been forcing me to contemplate the English presence in Irish political life lately and I regret that because it's often enraging.
In Europe this week the public confusion about Brexit is, if anything, even more pronounced now than in the USA. Quite simply, English credibility is shot to pieces.
Story of a rough night out for a luckless romantic named Bee, I Didn't...I Wasn't...I Amn't... is a raw and real look at working-class Dublin life and love.
Michael Hughes new novel, Country, which combines the sordid internecine war in the North with Homer's Iliad, looks certain to blaze another award-winning Irish trail
