Many thanks to Martin Doyle for a fun Q&A in the The Irish Times about Emma, Disappeared and my previous books. With a shout out to Serena Molloy at the end! irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

I interviewed Hilary Fannin about life and illness and who gets to write stuff. Her new play Children of the Sun starts this coming week in the Abbey (her novel the Weight of Love is also absolutely fantastic) irishtimes.com/culture/stage/…

Karlin Lillington on Filterworld and Code Dependent: potentially devastating outcomes of algorithmic technology. Filterworld by Kyle Chayka and Code Dependent by Madhumita Murgia illuminate the dangers of AI and other technology and how they damage life

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Mark O’Connell’s debut as an Irish Times columnist: “While Silicon Valley doomers worry about an existential threat to humanity posed by AI, they ignore the nightmarish and destructive uses to which it is already being put by the Israeli army”

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Elizabeth Day: It took leaving and returning for me to become a Derry girl. As a child, I feared not monsters under my bed but men in balaclavas. While many of my memories of the city were unhappy, I needed to return

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Denis Bradley: ‘Partition doesn’t work, never has worked, never will work’ - a fascinating, wide-ranging interview by Gerry Moriarty with the author of Peace Comes Dropping Slow: My Life in the Troubles

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Well worth viewing this wonderful hour of Fintan O'Toole in conversation with Martin Doyle about his eloquent book on the Northern Ireland trauma and troubles, Dirty Linen.
Martin Doyle Fintan O'Toole Glucksman Ireland House NYU Kevin Kenny Glucksman Ireland House NYU Irish Studies at Boston College
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Delighted to say that Mark O’Connell has joined The Irish Times as a weekly columnist. He will appear on Saturdays, starting tomorrow.

No one has anything to fear from Irish!
I'm often asked how I learned Irish. And why I did so as a Unionist. This little video, in Irish with English subtitles, gives an insight into my views on a beautiful language we all - often unknowingly - share and use every day.

For years, the PSNI had reassured concerned groups that it did not share victims’ data with immigration officials.

However an internal review - prompted by reporting by The Detail - has found the force routinely and 'unnecessarily' shared data on migrant victims.

PEN Heaney Prize launched. Books newsletter
- a preview of tomorrow’s pages and a roundup of the latest news
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UK government's legal challenge over inquest into murder of GAA official Seán Brown has “retraumatising effect on a family but most specifically an 86-year-old widow'
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Yet another ploy to derail and delay our efforts to uncover the truth and obtain justice for Daddy. We are disgusted at this cynical manoeuvre and by how little respect the NIO and SOS are showing to my mother. Has she not been through enough!

Kevin McAleer, going out in style at Vicar Street tonight. Ninety minutes of comic genius, including the pauses.

Patrick James Errington wins Pollard Poetry Prize; Lance Larsen wins Moth Poetry Prize

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Jaysus.

Congratulations to Sinéad Gleeson on the Hodges Figges launch of her debut novel Hagstone, a celebration of what it is to be an artist and of female solidarity, two qualities in which she is an expert and a shining example. A beautiful launch by Kishani Widyaratna & Louise Kennedy

Barney O’Dowd was the personification of dignity and courage. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.

Excited to announce our Belfast book launch for the 'Routledge Handbook of the NI Conflict and Peace'. It will take place at PRONI on Thursday 23 May 2024 at 4pm and everyone is welcome (as long as they register on the eventbrite!). eventbrite.co.uk/e/disciplinary…

Martin Doyle A dignified and lovely man. Here’s a link to an interview I did with him a few years ago for WAVE Trauma Centre

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