President says Irish people must ‘remember generously’ during the decade of centenaries

Kenny and Burton say Labour and Fine Gael will go to people on their own manifestos

Goodwill garnered over bailout exit and recovery impaired by unexpected events

Michael D Higgins concentrates on ethical issues in first major address in Paris

Recently discovered diplomatic archives allude to secret procedure

The Nobel laureate’s early enthusiasm for a brave old world of glorious Celtic warriors ended in postwar disillusion and disgust

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’

US vice-president says Irish recognised truth that everyone is entitled to respect in vote

Prince Charles spends second day of Irish visit in Sligo visiting ‘Yeats country’

School debating is no substitute for Socratic inquiry, argues author and campaigner Peter Worley

A show garden for the upcoming Bloom festival is a tribute to WB Yeats

Noreen Rice: February 19th, 1936 - March 19th, 2015

The news from Dublin to Kerry; Belfast to Cork; Sligo to Waterford

Irish mammies can be hard to spoil – many of them would prefer to look after you. Here are some ideas to ensure your mum doesn’t make her own Mother’s Day dinner

Kavanagh, Yeats and Heaney among contenders in A Poem for Ireland project

Willie John McBride: ‘He was just one of the great men of this world, I am just proud I had him as a friend’

Legal wrangle over estate ends with Supreme Court ruling over right of way

Yeats had a late creative surge – including ‘one of the greatest ever death-bed utterances’ – before he died surrounded by his muses in France 75 years ago

‘I had far more nerves today than 50 years ago’ – retired Lieutenant Colonel John Dunne

Educators are fond of the poet’s remark but can’t agree about whether he wrote it