Children are being encouraged to write their own ‘Big Eco Song’ with the winners being offered the opportunity to record ...

RTÉ is inviting entries to one of Ireland's longest established and most significant literary prizes, the RTÉ Short Story Competition in honour of writer and broadcaster, Francis MacManus.

As a reporter, I researched the situation of Irish ... plus sides of writing a story, rather than a novel, is that you can leave out large areas of the emotional history of the characters and ...

Will Ferrell paid tribute to his friend John C. Reilly at the 2025 Oscar Wilde Awards and remembered how John C. Reilly improvised one of the funniest moments in 'Talladega Nights.' ...

We are already more than halfway through Irish American heritage month, so if you are still searching for some luck this ...

You can see this in Irish writing all this century so far ... that it has some kind of basis in mythological fact. The characters in the Hollywood film that rolls into town, ‘An Dagda ...

I wanted to see if I could write the pain out of myself.” This creative compulsion can be observed in many of the characters in ... were set in the Anglo-Irish milieu of crumbling country ...

In a remembrance published in The Irish Times after her death, her son Patrick Smyth, a longtime journalist there, recalled her once writing ... about her characters and their social ...

This St. Patrick’s Day, revisit literary classics by Irish authors like James Joyce and Roddy Doyle, plus discover a few new ...

Cork actor Denis Conway is back in his native city to appear in Making History, a Brien Friel play he says is packed with relevance ...

The 2025 competition is open for entries! Closing date: Friday 23rd May 2025. Follow the link below to submit an online entry, or see the rules for instructions on how to enter by post.

A nerdy kid, Róisín has always loved spooky horror stories. “I was a goth as a teenager and went out with boys who were in ...