John Banville, Christy Nolan, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Annie West are among the writers and artists featured in a new exhibition showcasing new treasures acquired by the Library.

Support for this article was provided by the British Library’s Eccles Institute for the Americas & Oceania Phil Davies ...

Trinity Library is renowned for its medieval collections, but a new exhibition, which opened last night, showcases new treasures acquired by the library celebrating and reflecting on Ireland’s ...

Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney—in cast bronze by internationally noted Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The piece was commissioned and donated by former BC Trustee and Burns Library benefactor Brian P.

The best obituaries, those that are most enjoyable to read, juxtapose obvious public accomplishments with the sheer strangeness of people’s lives.

Though born and raised in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Lutz wields the English language like a polymath émigré—Nabokov if Nabokov ...

One small island, one giant treasure trove of artistic talent. The island of Ireland has had four Nobel Prize laureates in ...

Parallels between Kafka and Lutz abound, not least a facility for what Lutz at one point calls “exuberant hopelessness” (Samuel Beckett and Thomas Bernhard also come to mind here: all of them ...

“I learned sort of fairly early on that I felt rather confident onstage,” she told Andrew MacKay in a 2010 British Library interview ... Ionesco and Samuel Beckett. Many of the people ...

Every few years, the Black Library – that’s the name of Games ... of roasting a captured Guardsman a lá The Hobbit, or A Samuel Beckett-esque conversation between two prisoners in a ...

When Samuel Beckett died, his British publisher, John Calder, and his biographer, James Knowlson, teamed up to recall the death-obsessed author of “Waiting for Godot.” Prominent figures from ...