His death 100 years ago was a loss to Irish literature and to post-independence Ireland

Slane-born poet and soldier was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele

A forgotten blackbird? The legacy of the soldier poet who was killed on July 31st, 1917

British soldier died on July 31st, 1917, the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele

Radio Review: The RTÉ host’s interview with Orla Brady turns cringeworthy

Standard-bearers struggle to hold up their colours on windswept hillside

The most merciless enemy was the foul mud and with it the stink of wet rotting bodies

Poet was one of those civilised citizens of vision who would have contributed to the birth and growth of the new Ireland had they not died before their time

Royal says Glasnevin cemetery was ‘deeply moving’ and ‘most memorable moment’

Val Carmen’s ‘Assembly’ has 1,216 pages and lists those whose died around Ypres in WW1

Gerard Smyth and Seán McSweeney’s ‘The Yellow River’ explores their links to county

As the centenary draws to an end, now is a good time to visit the Pearse Museum

Kettle died to liberate France which has long been an inspiration for Irish republicans

Martin McGuinness speaks at ceremony remembering poet who died in first World War

With President Hollande set to visit Glasnevin to mark the Irish role in the World Wars, we can acknowledge duality and remember those on opposite sides 100 years ago

West Cork Chamber Music Festival heard pieces by Deirdre Gribbin and Seán Doherty

Time has come for an ethics of narrative hospitality to replace our past entrenchments

Many concerned for the future as surprise and shock greets Brexit result

Kevin Vickers involved in arrest of man during event to remember British dead

Tipperary community unveils life-size statue of Rising leader and poet executed in 1916

Deputy First Minister says it’s ‘only proper and right’ to honour sacrifice made by Irish

Vital to remember those Irishmen who died in conflict, says Martin McGuinness

Gerald Dawe discusses some of the background to his new book, Of War and War’s Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing

War writing at heart is about the ambivalence of loyalty to class, nation, and friends, and of belief and the business of being human, and more recent Irish writing on the Great War, in reopening a closed chapter in our history, is no different in exploring all those ambiguities

The Great War transformed our understanding of war, forcing writers to describe the world in new ways, and in a new language

The politics they returned to meant it is only in recent years that the stories of the Irish men and women who died – and wrote – in the Great War have been heard

Stories of thousands of Irishmen who died in Dardanelles banished in post-1916 Ireland

‘The memory of that Christmas truce is so important on this island at this time’

Europe Letter: Irish writer Francis Ledwidge and Welsh poet Hedd Wyn were both killed in action 97 years ago today

Katharine Tynan to Francis Ledwidge after his death, July 31st, 1917, in the battle of Passchendaele

An Irishman’s Diary: Remembering Tom Kettle and Francis Ledwidge

First joint visit by two leaders to honour those killed in first World War