‘Heaps of tresses’: What do poets really mean about Irish hair?

Debate about Irish people’s hair has endured for centuries

President Connolly pays tribute to poet Gabriel Rosenstock who has died aged 76

Born in Co Limerick, Rosenstock won numerous awards and wrote primarily in Irish

Vona Groarke: ‘The best thing that could happen for Irish poetry is for people to buy poetry books’

The new Ireland Professor of Poetry is looking forward to bringing some fresh ideas to the role but is ‘not in the business of ramming poetry down anybody’s throats’

‘Conflict, religion and poetry are the three energies that I hold together, and they’re all about language’

The man behind the immensely popular Poetry Unbound podcast discusses the two books he’s publishing this year, early objections to Patrick Kavanagh, and the vitalness of surprise

Poet Grace Wilentz: ‘Ireland has been very generous to me. There’s an abundance of fresh air and bookstores and intellectual stimulation’

The New York-born poet on having resilience foisted upon her as a teenager when both of her parents died

Na Peirsigh/Persians review: A mind-numbing report from a miserable war

Theatre: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s translation of the tragedy by Aeschylus finds parallels with Irish history but sometimes succumbs to information overload

President pays tribute to ‘extraordinary’ poets Brendan Kennelly and Máire Mhac an tSaoi

‘We have lost so many people,’ Michael D Higgins says after deaths of two Irish poets

Passing the baton – how Parnell’s walking stick became a literary totem

An Irishman’s Diary

Rethinking the meaning of revival of the Irish language

Irish has been instrumentalised for centuries in many ways beyond domain of cultural nationalism

Junior Cert Irish: A ‘very fair’ paper 1

Honours Irish paper would have pleased ‘virtually every student at higher level’

Hung, Thrawn, and Quartered – Frank NcNally on Westminster’s Brexit crisis, as seen through Ulster-Scots

Liam Ó Muirthile: ceardaí focal, craftsman of words

Philip King, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Liam Carson, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Diarmaid de Faoite pay tribute

Guardian’s modern Ireland book recommendations are ‘b*ll*cks’

Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland

Meáin of few words? Taoiseach shows off more than cúpla focal on Aran visit

However, Fine Gael doesn’t get too many votes on islands now, several residents recalled