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Born in Co. Clare, Edna O'Brien is famous for her rich and sensuous prose often dealing with women's disappointment in love

Susan McKay is a writer and journalist whose latest book Bear in Mind these Dead looks with courage, integrity and humanity at many of the victims of the northern 'Troubles'

This film made by the Coen brothers in 1990 sees gangster Tom Reagan play two rival gangs off against each other in a Prohibition-era power struggle

In 1606, Nicolas Soret, maître de grammaire at Notre-Dame in Paris, published and put on La Céciliade, a play recounting the martyrdom of Saint Cecilia

A graduate of the Crawford College of Art in Cork, Martin Healy works through the media of photography and video.

A documentary on the spectacular nature of surfing in Ireland

Directed by Mike Newell and written by Jim Sheridan, Into the West is a modern-day fairy tale

This film by Alan Parker is adapted from the eponymous novel, the first in Roddy Doyle’s Barrytown Trilogy

Nuala Ní Chonchúir is the author of two short story and two poetry collections