Rite&Reason: Is Ireland no country for old nuns?
Nuance needed to give those dedicating lives to service the respect they deserve
Should Joyce be ‘cancelled’ for misogyny; Conrad for racism?
Do ideas embraced by some writers in the past mean we should stop reading them?
Brigid O’Dea: ‘These days, to live really is so startling’
After 17 months of gestation, we are leaving the wombs of our homes and learning once more the ways of this world
What are words worth: do poets and philosophers speak the same language?
Unthinkable: Research project and poetry prize explore overlap between perceived rival disciplines
‘Do I really care?’ Woody Allen comes out fighting
The film-maker, accused of sexually assaulting his child in 1992, is done treading carefully
‘I can’t do thrillers or spy novels or genre fiction. I just get bored'
The author Colm Tóibín discusses female Irish novelists, families, and when he wishes he had a TV
Lesson from West Cork for Galway’s troubled European Capital of Culture
One shining beacon in Galway’s programme is a cello festival and the West Cork Chamber Music Festival’s offering of less-frequently heard cello repertoire is a timely taster
Won’t somebody please think of the children?
YA Fiction: Yasmin Rahman’s All The Things We Never Said, Meredith Russo’s Birthday and more
My brothers were inseparable . . . until one died
They shared a room. They shared their friends. Their bond was steadfast, unbreakable
Murmurations of starlings can give us all a lift in dark January
As the natural world declines in parts, evening displays of flocking birds can make hearts sing
Mary Oliver, prize-winning poet, dies at 83
Her work, with its plain language, drew a wide following but divided critics
Presidential election: Gallagher told not to send letters to Áras
Formal dispatch from candidate not entertained by Higgins ‘for obvious reasons’
The Irish woman who became Canada’s first major poet
Isabella Valancy Crawford was one of Canada’s first writers to make a living as a freelancer
In a word . . . November
It may be a function of growing older – but as time goes by death does lose its sting
‘I don’t see myself as a Nigerian woman who landed a job in RTÉ’
Zainab Boladale, the new co-presenter of ‘News2Day’, is happy to see diversity on TV
Get your own poem on Poetry Day Ireland
As part of today’s celebrations, Lewis Kenny will be writing personalised verse at Poetry Ireland’s HQ
A Quiet Passion review: Emily Dickinson, from lively girl to thundering wagon
The poet and proto-emo barely deems to step outside her own head in this portrayal
Being Miranda in Sex and the City? 'I'm very proud of it'
Cynthia Nixon on the legacy of the iconic TV show, playing poet Emily Dickinson in ‘A Quiet Passion’, and why Ireland's Marriage Equality referendum meant so much to her
Declan Kiberd on Bob Dylan’s Nobel prize for literature
Mr Tambourine Man is arguably the most pirated pirate in the history of modern music
Parent’s diary: ‘Finally my turn to ask: are we there yet?’
Marie Daly says they may have their wits about them, but we still do the necessary
Leaving Cert English: Detail on Paul Durcan a challenge in an hour
Relief as contemporary Irish poet appears but teacher queries range required
Leaving Cert diary: ‘My hand was going dead after three hours’
Seán Flanagan is delighted and exhausted after two days of writing like a maniac
Unthinkable: How many emotions can one person feel?
Poets rather than scientists are best-placed to explain our feelings, says ‘emotional archivist’ Tiffany Watt Smith
I found my tribe at the cove in Greystones
My house is full of strangers because my husband has motor neuron disease, but my secret all-year swim club saves me
Revealing Emily Dickinson through her feisty Irish maid
Nuala O’Connor has found a novel way into the life of the reclusive poet
Feathers review: Dancing in a vast Beckettian anywhere | Tiger Dublin Fringe
A great collaboration between composer Mel Mercier and choreographer John Scott
Robert Pinsky: ‘I don’t like the idea that poetry is marketed’
The three times US poet laureate is in residence at the Kilkenny Arts Festival
Literary listings: Irish head for Edinburgh, and Library Voices at Dun Laoghaire
Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books
What is poetry? Three masters look for answers
Beekeeping, Belfast and Buddhism: books of lectures by Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Michael Longley cast the net wide
10 summer releases to watch out for
New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights
Alexis Stamatis: ‘I read to find myself again and to re-examine my place in the world’
Brought to Book Q&A: Greek novelist and poet on Emily Dickinson and Robert Mouzil
Digging deep into the regions of Seamus Heaney’s poetry
Richard Rankin Russell’s book explores the poet’s fidelity to his birthplace in Co Derry
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