CULTURE Local War of Independence discovery to feature on RTÉ’s Ear to the Ground
Tale of Newport’s historic jam jar on TV tonight
Staying In
Picking apart our perception of identity
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on ‘The Lies That Bind – Rethinking Identity’, a thought-provoking book by Kwame Anthony Appiah
Mulranny musician’s debut single out this week
MUSIC Enda Mulloy’s debut single ‘Batten the Hatches Down’ from his upcoming first album will be released this coming Thursday
My top Christmas reads
BOOKS Westport bookseller Bríd Conroy shares the titles that she is looking forward to reading this Christmas
Mayo authors fêted at Irish Book Awards
BOOKS Sally Rooney and Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin win Novel of the Year and Irish Language Book Of The Year, respectively
Behind the Bard
BOOKS Westport bookseller and bibliophile Bríd Conroy reviews Marie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’, a fictional retelling of the death of Shakespeare’s son
Two princes with lessons for all
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on children’s classics ‘The Little Prince’, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and ‘The Happy Prince’, by Oscar Wilde
Bookshop Tertulia up for national award
BOOKS Winners of the Paper Lanterns and Tertulia Books Teen Short Story Competition also announced
Science fiction with real-world lessons
BOOKS Bríd Conroy on her science-fiction favourites – the Dune series by Frank Herbert and the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov
Musical strings to island’s bow
Fifth Achill International Harp Festival to take place online this weekend
Mars, Venus and fiction
BOOKS Bríd Conroy reviews two fictions, ‘Life Without Children’, by Roddy Doyle, and ‘A Man Called Ove’, by Fredrik Backman