Denis Donoghue obituary: One of the world’s foremost scholars of modern literature
One student recalled ‘it was easy to mistake his grand, rolling cadences for the voice of God’
One student recalled ‘it was easy to mistake his grand, rolling cadences for the voice of God’
Father of novelist Emma Donoghue held professorships at New York University and UCD
The Dublin author’s book is an intensification of the common experience of having a child, in all its claustrophobic terror and glory
Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death
Emergence of new documents cast doubt over whether poet’s remains buried in Sligo
Beekeeping, Belfast and Buddhism: books of lectures by Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Michael Longley cast the net wide
Most deprived areas of city are referendum battlegrounds that Yes side targeted
Review: Rejected in 1933 as a nightmare, Beckett’s story in fact is clean fun, witty but not vulgar
Review: Barry believed that the sole purpose of landscape was to serve as background to the depiction of “significant human action”, which was the central business of a serious painter
Ivan Klíma was clearly a dissident. But then the Czech writer was too cautious to sign Charter 77, and now he is oddly accepting of Václav Havel
The latest huge volume of the poet’s correspondence deals mainly with his failing first marriage, the complexities of his Anglican faith and his editorship of the ‘Criterion’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices