With much of Belfast’s ‘Titanic’ celebrations focusing on the ship, Philip Hammond has composed a moving musical tribute to the…

With such a long tradition of complex and contradictory responses to the 1916 Easter Rising, there’s no reason to expect the …

As a critic, George Bernard Shaw laid the foundation of 20th-century theatre, but his plays lie outside their time, writes Peter…

In his stage treatment of the 1916 Rising, the usually controversial writer Donal O'Kelly is for once seeking to reach the middle…

Literary Criticism: The publication of The Irish Writer and the World, a collection of essays that first appeared between 1979…

Biography In the early 1970s, when I was a student, I found myself on a summer evening in the centre of Dublin with nothing …

W.B. Yeats has been the subject of much scholarly attention in recent times.

Eighty years ago, the paths of two men - one who made films, the other who made history - crossed on a turbulent boat journey…

I started my Life of Bernard Shaw where he started his life: in Dublin

Thinking back in old age on his early nationalist potboiler Cathleen Ni Houlihan, W.B

Taking his subtitle from Hamlet's advice to the players that their work must "give the very age and body of the time his form…

THIS is a finicky book about a huge subject. I'm not sure editor is driving at.