The Irish Times

Rare letters from teenage WB Yeats to be auctioned in London

Letters include encounter with veteran Fenian John O’Leary of September 1913 fame

Fri Dec 04 2020 - 14:52

The world’s greatest – but probably least-known – Irish library

Film star Grace Kelly's roots prompted her to collect Irish literature, including rare editions of Joyce, Beckett and Shaw

Thu Dec 14 2017 - 10:31

Francis Ledwidge: an Irish nationalist in a British army uniform

Poet was one of those civilised citizens of vision who would have contributed to the birth and growth of the new Ireland had they not died before their time

Mon May 22 2017 - 05:00

Irish music muses: Meet the Galway Girl, Úna Bhán and Nancy Spain

Gerry Hanberry’s book, ‘On Raglan Road’, tells the story of the women who inspired great Irish love songs by Mick Hanly, Christy Moore, Percy French, Mundy and Phil Lynnott

Tue Nov 01 2016 - 00:00

A terrible beauty: the poetry of 1916

Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald explores the cultural legacy of the Easter Rising in the work of the rebels themselves and fellow poets Yeats, AE, James Stephens and Francis Ledwidge

Wed Aug 19 2015 - 08:00