Writers, poets, friends and fans reflect on Leonard Cohen’s words, music and work

Set up by teenagers in the 1960s, Foxrock Folk Club drew big names to its parish-hall gigs. A new album features club recordings of Kelly, Ronnie Drew and Dónal Lunny

The Thin Lizzy founder – Ireland’s first bona-fide rock star – died on January 4, 1986. Friends recall the man they knew

Authors and editors: ‘Sloppy editors say yes to everything; good editors take the harder path, and get stuck in’ – Vona Groarke

Less meat, more vegetables, reduced food waste . . . These are among the ways you can help cut carbon emissions. An event in Dublin this week looks at how we produce food and its impact on climate change

Cork-born poet takes €2,000 prize for ‘Nine Bright Shiners’ collection

Sara Baume and Colm Tóibín will also take part in this year’s literary event in Galway

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

Former Arts Council drama officer encouraged women ‘to aim higher and go further’

Richard Rankin Russell’s book explores the poet’s fidelity to his birthplace in Co Derry

The O’Brien Press is 40. In that time, its founder has broken a lot of ground, from true crime to children’s books

Visual Art: The Twelve Bens are vividly captured in Wilson’s picture book; plus reviews of Kevin Cosgrove and selected works from the collection of Pat and Antoinette Murphy

Dermot Healy: November 9th, 1947 - June 29th, 2014

‘A poet of oceanic forlorness in all his writings’

Some poets are so embarrassed to say what they do that they’d rather tell people they work for Revenue

The fearless beauty of his poetry shone out of every aspect of the National Concert Hall celebration

A new collection of essays and poems celebrates poet and editor Peter Fallon. In his contribution, the late Dennis O’Driscoll describes the man who was his ‘first poet’

He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’