International Dublin Literary Award: Anna Burns becomes first Irish woman to win €100,000 prize
Troubles novel has already won Man Booker and Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prizes
Zombie students: Queues outside libraries before 7am as pressure grows
High rents and higher expectations impact on today’s third-level students
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees
After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories
Students announce end of TCD occupation
Provost posts tweet saying ‘alternative proposals’ would be considered by TCD board
Security guards enter Trinity building occupied by students
Sit-in taking place since Tuesday in protest at introduction of new fees for repeat exams
My goodness, aspiring to greatness
For the Abbey’s new production of Teresa Deevy’s neglected classic, ‘Katie Roche’, the theatre turned to the trailblazing director Caroline Byrne
The Leaving Cert is absurd and unfair but we are obsessed with it
The Irish media’s blanket coverage of the leaving cert is not replicated elsewhere
Is our education system fit for purpose in the 21st-century?
Experts believe the Republic’s exam-obsessed model is failing Irish students
Trinity College breaks with 400-year exams tradition
Christmas testing and earlier start brings college into line with most other universities
Robots and revelations: Science Gallery launches 2017 programme
Next year’s exhibitions will look at artificial intelligence, and explore different ways our society could collapse
DCU president says university rankings dip is wake-up call
Government needs to consider income-contingent loan scheme, says Brian MacCraith
‘Given the choice of compromise or fight, WB Yeats rolled up his sleeves every time’
Yeats could apply that same laser-like intelligence to public affairs that he applied to his poetry or drama, and he laid down arguments that are vital to our current National Cultural Policy
Sinéad Morrissey wins ‘Irish Times’ Poetry Now award
Belfast poet wins accolade for second time for her collection ‘Parallax’
Experience and precocity on the Poetry Now shortlist
Contemporary Irish poetry is doing well, as the breadth of work up for the Irish Times Poetry Now award demonstrates
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