Irish playwright and novelist Barry's gift for image and metaphor (The Whereabouts of Aneas McNulty) are equaled here by his eye for descriptive detail. This moving ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

Irish novelist Sebastian Barry joins poets Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes as the third writer ever to win the prestigious Costa Book Award twice, this time for Days Without End, the spellbinding new ...

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 ...

In The Irish Times tomorrow, Grace Wilentz talks to Adrienne Murphy about the untimely deaths of her parents when she was still at school, her move to Ireland from New York and her poetry collections.

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 ...