Olivia Cole

Unrecorded lives: Tell Me Everything, by Elizabeth Strout, reviewed

21 September 2024 9:00 am

The pandemic’s aftershocks are still felt in Crosby, as Strout’s best-loved characters, Olive, Lucy, Jim and Bob, reminisce about people they have known, imbuing their lives with meaning

Old mill boards and sea-green slates: Yeats’s tower

On the Yeats trail in Galway

24 January 2015 9:00 am

The Go Galway bus from Dublin sounds an unlikely pleasure, but it is both comfortable and punctual. There is free…

‘Artmaking is a drug’ - interview with poet Paul Muldoon

19 July 2014 9:00 am

Olivia Cole talks to Paul Muldoon about the extraordinary buzz that writing gives him