Interviews
Building a Billion Dollar Business
Leadership, Learning, and Life: Tony Reilly’s journey from soccer scholarship to the world of finance.Tony…
The Times Man in Dublin: James Clarity
A year ago, veteran correspondent Jim Clarity arrived in Dublin to work for The New…
A Great Performance
From unpretentious origins in Dublin, Bernard Shaw grew up to be the most celebrated playwright…
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In Pursuit of the Supernatural
John Banville’s first book, Long Larkin, was published in 1970; his most recent novel, Ghosts, has just come out. In the intervening years he has produced nine novels and received […]
The Long Shadow
Tim Pat Coogan, author of The IRA: A History, talks to Patricia Harty. “I really think the Irish-Americans are crucial to this. I’m historian enough to know there would be […]
Dark Secrets of the Heart: William Kennedy’s Irish Chronicles
The Irish of Albany, New York, have proved to be rich and fertile literary material for native son William Kennedy as is evident in Legs, Billy Phelan’s Greatest Game, Ironweed, […]
Taking It To The Top: An Interview with An Taoiseach Albert Reynolds
In November 1991, shortly after making an abortive effort to replace Charles Haughey as head of Fianna Fail, the chances of Albert Reynolds ever becoming Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland […]
The Irish Experience in Australia
Thomas Keneally is widely-recognized for a wide body of work of a historical and political nature, including The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, which explores differences between the white and Aboriginal […]
Nolan Ryan: A Man for All Seasons
So there we were in the lower depths of Yankee Stadium, following the dark empty corridor we hoped would lead to the visiting team’s dressing room and baseball great, Nolan […]