A record of what was published, when, and how it changed.

TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week

By Aoife Barry

August 16th-21st highlights: including Ludwig, The Healy-Raes: Blood Sweat & Tears, and The Rose of Tralee

English Premier League team-by-team guide: The title challengers, key signings and players to watch this season

By Mary Hannigan

Chelsea and Tottenham have splashed the cash, with plenty of transfers still likely to happen

My boyfriend often drinks heavily and takes cocaine and I’m struggling to deal with it

By Roe McDermott

Ask Roe: On the surface level, I find it disgraceful that my partner would get into this state

The Writer’s Writer: A dive into John McGahern’s literary archive shows his huge impact

By Eamon Maher

Leitrim writer’s archive features words of praise from Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel and Colm Tóibín, while Claire Keegan and Anne Enright also speak of his influence

Fergie Chambers: The Dublin-based communist millionaire in the Trump administration’s crosshairs

By Rachel Lavin

Heir turned ‘professional revolutionary’ left his home in Ireland for a holiday in Spain but was arrested after US extradition order on terror funding charges

Right-wing AfD on a roll ahead of crucial election as it taps into East German nostalgia

By Derek Scally

Berlin politicians fear Germany’s first AfD-led state could hobble federal co-operation

A Little Bit Bad: One for the bath with a glass of wine, in the best possible way

By Lucy Sweeney Byrne

Cassandra Neyenesch’s novel is so funny and brutal it might make you get in a fight with your husband or start looking up roofers

Win an overnight stay at Dunluce Lodge, Co. Antrim, with breakfast and dinner for two people sharing

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The Irish Times has teamed with the five-star, Dunluce Lodge in Portrush, Co. Antrim to offer one lucky reader the chance to win an overnight stay for two with breakfast and dinner included.

Win two Weekend Camping tickets to Electric Picnic 2026

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With summer drawing to a close, why not see it out in style with a pair of tickets to the most renowned party in Ireland’s festival calendar!

Win a Luxury Summer Getaway for two at Powerscourt Hotel Resort and Spa

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The Irish Times has teamed up with Powerscourt Hotel Resort and Spa to offer one lucky pair a luxurious one-night stay.

Win an overnight stay at Abbey Court Hotel & Leisure Club, Tipperary

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Win the ultimate overnight stay, with prosecco and chocolates on arrival, a three-course dinner, leisure club access, late checkout, and breakfast.

Win a two-night stay in The College Green Hotel Dublin

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The Irish Times has teamed up with the Autograph Collection to offer one lucky winner a two night bed-and-breakfast stay with bottle of champagne on arrival.

The solar eclipse in pictures: How the spectacle was seen across Ireland

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The solar eclipse peaked in Ireland between 7pm and 7.45pm on Wednesday

Vanessa Donoso López: (O-O-O) review – Inscrutable cacophony of objects left to their own devices

By Aengus Woods

Visual art: Object-oriented ontology can sound fuzzy and it’s arguably only in contemporary sculpture and assemblage that it makes much sense

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Political violence was the decisive factor in the creation of the Irish Free State

By Michael McDowell

Does this justify the use of political violence by anyone today in Northern Ireland? Emphatically, no

Here’s a radical idea for the Government: start telling us the truth

By Fintan O’Toole

Its lack of candour on big issues such as Aughinish and data centres is rust that corrodes trust in democracy

Sale of vapes and cigarettes to young people could be banned

By Marie O’Halloran

Government considering ban for anyone born after certain date

The Curing Line review: Five-star reminder of why we go to the theatre, or why we go out at all

By Ruby Eastwood

Kilkenny Arts Festival: New fever dream of an opera by composer Michael Gallen draws on Irish folk tradition of healers gifted with ‘the cure’

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Kitten by Stacey Yu: Strange, vibrant and genuinely idiosyncratic novel

By Lucy Sweeney Byrne

Buy this for the cat-obsessed youth in your life immediately

We must kill the myth that Irish independence was achieved through violence

By Stephen Collins

Admiration for cult of violence that motivated some 1916 leaders has warped popular understanding of our history for far too long, permeating popular culture

Ireland could look like paradise to England’s heat refugees

By Finn McRedmond

We are used to climate refugees escaping heat and floods - just not being uncomfortable British pensioners

Anna von Hausswolff at All Together Now 2026: Not just brilliant but genuinely surprising

By Ruby Eastwood

Swedish musician evokes apocalypse, environmental collapse and spiritual darkness in songs striving towards the light

Róis at All Together Now 2026: Traditional keening like you’ve never heard it before

By Ruby Eastwood

A very good show and an exciting glimpse of the freer, more unpredictable artist Róis could become

Gilla Band at All Together Now 2026: Claustrophobic music that envelops you with richness and darkness

By Ruby Eastwood

Dara Kiely is the band’s indispensable focal point and he staggers across the stage howling like a wounded man

Kneecap at All Together Now: Exceptional performance marks a departure for Belfast rappers

By Niamh Browne

A mature, moody headline performance from the Belfast band who bring various collaborators on to Waterford stage