Imagining Ireland makes a stunning break for Europe
The NCH’s centenary celebrations continue with a night of high calibre one-off performances
New fiction: Joanna Walsh’s short story collection
In ‘Vertigo’, the writer highlights familiar worlds as they are about to fracture
Roddy L'Estrange: Coastal stroll and Prufrock nearly seal it for our hero
It was time for Vinny to seek sanctuary in a caravan bolt-hole in Curracloe
West Cork Chamber Music Festival searches for a new Bantry home
The festival needs its own dedicated venue, and its director’s pursuit of one might be about to bear fruit
Denis Donoghue: Why WB Yeats matters
As even the hostile critic FR Leavis conceded, in Yeats’s poetry ‘there is no element of a man’s experience in the twentieth century that, of its nature, it excludes’
A poem for Ireland, poetry for everyone
The countdown is on to find Ireland’s favourite Irish poem, so we’ve asked a selection of writers and readers to tell us their favourite few lines of verse, and to nominate which poem they think is best from RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland shortlist
Been there, done that: learning from leaders
At the Pendulum Summit in Dublin, delegates heard inspiring stories of change and re-invention
The Loafing Heroes: raggle-taggle songs about Casement and Kierkegaard
The band want to bring back the fine art of loafing, along with a few more serious concerns
Dylan Thomas 100 years on – still beguiling readers with his ‘eloquent fury’
Centenary of the birth of the Welsh poet, who ‘manages to juxtapose the sonorous tones of the pulpit with the intimate squeak of a mouse’
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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