Some of the most insightful contemporary writing about America is being produced by Irish writers. Our long engagement with the rise and fall of the United States arises in part from our own ...

Vladimir Nabokov once complained that English translations of his favorite Russian writer were so flat and colorless that “None but an Irishman should ever try tackling Gogol.” I’d nominate Sebastian ...

Sebastian Barry was surprisingly cheerful while writing “The Secret Scripture,” the moving and tragic tale of a socially rejected beautiful young woman who has been trapped in an Irish mental ...

Tom Kettle has seen enough evil in his life. The 66-year-old Irishman has retired from his career as a police detective and moved to a small lean-to adjoining a castle in the town of Dalkey. He's ...

In Sebastian Barry’s new novel, “Old God’s Time,” a retired policeman retreats to a quiet, isolated life along the Irish Sea only to find the past can’t be so easily left behind when a cold case comes ...

Author Sebastian Barry, who has received four previous nominations for the Booker Prize and twice been shortlisted for it, was one of four Irish writers Tuesday to make the long list of semifinalists ...

A couple of years ago I interviewed the Irish novelist Colm Tóibín after he had published New Ways To Kill Your Mother: a book of essays that explored how writers’ relationships with their families ...

Sebastian Barry’s most captivating novels feature Irish men and women who have ventured far and wide and now look back on the jagged course of their lives to make sense of what they did, whom they ...

Sebastian Barry's superb new novel, "Annie Dunne," opens with a scene familiar to anyone conversant with Irish fiction. Two children from Dublin are being left for the summer with an old maiden aunt ...

'Get Out' is about a young black man named Chris whose white girlfriend, Rose, takes him to meet her parents for the first time. Writer-director Jordan Peele (previously of 'Key & Peele') calls his ...