Three Irish traditional music books from a piper, a flautist and a professor
The ‘profound artistry’ of Irish music through the words of Erick Falc’her Poyroux, Mick O’Connor and Seán Potts
Eavan Boland
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New poetry: Thomas McCarthy pays tribute to Eavan Boland, Sam Furlong sees strangeness in everything
Mícheál McCann reviews new work by Thomas McCarthy, Karen J McDonnell, Sam Furlong and Selima Hill
All dolled up: ‘Very ethereal and a little bit fey’
Om Diva’s dreamy Victorian Romance collection showcases feminine vintage silk, satin and lace
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’
Sarah Long: Aisling Is a Dream review – Ambitious exhibition builds powerful symbolic forms
The artist’s paintings are a blend of quasi-religious iconography, personal memory, poetic allusion and feminist semiotics
Could there be good reason to believe in life after death?
Unthinkable: Philosopher David Berman claims to have unearthed ‘evidence’ for believing in an afterlife
Even the word ‘miscarriage’ seems to suggest the mother is somehow at fault
A taxing cycle of hope and dejection is a routine part of life for so many, playing out quietly in homes and workplaces across the country
If men were killing beetles at the rate they’re attacking women, something would be done
They were daughters, mothers, sisters, aunts, women with histories and plans for the lives they had yet to live
Trinity College Dublin celebrates renaming former Berkeley library after poet Eavan Boland
Trinity Chancellor Mary McAleese said move was part of dealing with ‘colonial legacies’
The Enlightenment gave rise to a habit of worshipping ‘great men’, but they never had to worry about dying in childbirth
Unthinkable: Donald Trump is on a crusade to unwind the ‘woke’ agenda, but that does not mean the question of inclusivity is solved
Poets’ prose: Thinking about questions posed by poems, from Seamus Heaney to Eavan Boland
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien; Citizen Poet: New & Selected Essays by Eavan Boland; Questioning Ireland by Thomas McCarthy
David Marcus, The Irish Times and a golden age of literary journalism
Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents
Why are so few places and streets in Ireland named after women?
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
Have your say on honouring Irish women: Are there any Irish streets, buildings, places or structures that should be named, or renamed, after women?
Which women should have places, streets or structures around Ireland named after them? We would like to hear your thoughts
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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