Rosita Boland recalls the thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious director of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre

The city is full of ghosts ... in the house where Wilde grew up, the library where Yeats studied

Soft Border, Hard Beckett: An Irishman’s Diary

O’Nolan spent his career pretending to be other people.  And sometimes even the other people were not who they were supposed to be

He was part of the Dublin bohemia that stopped Ireland succumbing to complete stultification

The Westmeath resident and son of Irish parents felt no sentiment towards Ireland

The artists’ association should not be attacked on the grounds of value for money

Open submission process and 600 artworks guarantee good – and puzzling – surprises

Lot at upcoming auction tuns out to be self-portrait not portrait of Anthony Cronin

Few writers could rival his versatility or claim such influence as adviser to two Taoisigh

Michael D Higgins among those to attend funeral of Irish poet who died aged 88

Tributes paid to poet’s part in setting up Aosdána to help artists and writers

Cronin was a fine critic who lived the interior life of the mind with grace and style

Publisher Dermot Bolger reflects on encouragement visible from teenage years

Complete and formidable literary man whose intelligence never overpowered his art

But his standing as a public intellectual is coloured by his relationship with Haughey

Co Wexford born writer served as an arts adviser to former taoiseach Charles Haughey

Obituary: He believed in giving voice to modern, more complex, often urban Irish life

Cronin has had many lives: as a bar-stool confidant to Irish literary giants, adviser to Haughey and a renowned poet

No selfie or Instagram picture can capture the essence of a person the way a painting can. Here, experienced portraitists give some pointers so you can have a go yourself

Nick Miller was inspired by working in the late Edward McGuire’s donated studio

Aosdána honour given by President Higgins for singular, sustained distinction in arts

Anthony Cronin, begetter of the first Bloomsday celebration in 1954, organised one of Dublin’s greatest literary events to mark the centenary of James Joyce’s birth in 1982

Anthony Cronin has produced one of the most distinctive oeuvres of Irish poetry in decades

Michael Smith: September 1st, 1942 - November 15th, 2014

Tribute to composer Seán Ó Riada and Druid Theatre productions among highlights

Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published

Bloomsday recreation grinds to a halt

‘If there is a Hell being prepared for me, it will be a dinner party. But I’d like to be in a bar, late at night in New York, with Colm Toibin, Patti Smith, Dickens, St John of the Cross, Toni Morrison, Keats and Emily Bronte, with her brother Branwell leading the singsong while arm-wrestling’

If Aosdána is a broken tool, the situation it was set up to remedy is still a broken situation

As President Higgins makes the first Irish State visit to Britain, a new book explores how Irish writers have treated the emigrant experience

Can our country be summed up by one book? We ask some experts to nominate candidates

Best-selling novelist and playright was one of Ireland’s most recognisable writers

Writer Anthony Cronin described Scott as ‘a person of great charm and presence’

At a grand dinner many years ago, Heaney made a nice gesture in honour of my father, who had recently died

A second chance to convert Stack A on Dublin’s George’s Dock into a contemporary art museum must not be missed