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’
Culture Shock: Reality check at Dublin Theatre Festival
The audience and the city had important roles to play in this year’s festival, closing the gap between reality and fiction
Literary Scotland on the independence vote
Salmond says Burns would vote Yes, but living writers are not all on the same page
Killaloe Music Festival lets its hair down with a pared-back approach
St Flannan’s is a challenging acoustic for musicians; here their solution is an energetic approach
Otherworldly beasts brave Galway gales for Macnas parade madness
Up to 35,000 attend Galway street carnival
Behind the curtain: the dark arts of dramaturgy
Help the writer deliver the best play possible. Get the basics right early. Do very little for a successful show, then claim the credit. Welcome to the tricks of the dramaturg’s trade
A bombing campaign against Syria could have incalculable consequences
Opinion: Does the West want regime change to put Islamists in power in Damascus?
Cats: On the prowl in a strange subculture
The Lloyd Webber musical is best embraced with a child’s willingness to accept the stunning weirdness of this feline underworld
Music broadcaster and critic best known for ‘My Music’
John Amis - born June 17th, 1922; died August 1st, 2013
Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and The Invention of The Great Gatsby, by Sarah Churchwell
The brittle genius of Zelda Fitzgerald shines through in this exploration of her husband’s masterpiece
Irish identity is work of art not political expediency
We must not take refuge in easy St Patrick's Day clichés. Instead we must forge an imaginative shared future
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