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‘I don’t think it’s possible to write a definitive biography of someone like de Valera, but I’ve tried to get as close as I could ’

By Andrew Lynch 2 days ago

Most people know David McCullagh as co-presenter of RTÉ’s Prime Time, but now the 49-year-old is showing off his literary side with a comprehensive new biography of Eamon de Valera, writes Andrew Lynch

Alfie Byrne: Dublin’s colourful champion of the downtrodden

By John Walshe 2 days ago

Trevor White has attempted to ensure that Byrne’s extraordinary life is given fitting tribute

A timely look at the politically provocative George Bernard Shaw

By Dermot Bolger 2 days ago

Shaw brought his own forensic practicality to Irish politics

An engaging analysis of Brexit’s fallout that pulses with urgency

By Jack Horgan-Jones 2 days ago

Connelly’s book launches during the ground zero moment for that panic: the night of the Brexit vote in June 2016

Blindboy adds another satirical string to his bow

By Kevin Power 2 days ago

Blindboy is restlessly creative – he was never going to settle for making novelty songs

An entertaining run through the long and the short of Gooch’s journey

By Jonathan O’Brien 1 week ago

AutoBiography: Gooch: The Autobiography, By Colm Cooper, Transworld Ireland, €23

A worthy legacy piece from le Carré

By Andrew Lynch 1 week ago

FICTION: A Legacy of Spies, By John le Carré, Viking Penguin, €19

Banville takes masterly control of Henry James’s unlucky heroine

By Kevin Power 1 week ago

Fiction: Mrs Ormond, By John Banville, Viking Penguin, €20

Unravelling the world’s anti-social networks

By Catherine Healy 1 week ago

Non-Fiction: The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power, By Niall Ferguson , Allen Lane, €30

Between the pages of a life less ordinary

1 week ago

Irish-born Anita Leslie was best known for her biographies of her famous in-laws, including Winston Churchill’s mother Jennie. However, as author Penny Perrick discovered, Leslie’s life more than merited a retelling of its own