‘We all make errors,’ Fr Barber told funeral decades after Fr Marmion allegations
Jesuit was appointed Belvedere’s headmaster in 1973
New queer literature anthologies show the work done and the work yet to do
Book reviews: Queer: A Collection of LGBTQ Writing and Queer Love are cause for celebration
Cardinal John Henry Newman: Canonisation imminent for ‘greatest of English prose writers’
Teachings on conscience had a big influence on Catholicism
First look inside the new Museum of Literature Ireland
MoLI in Newman House, Dublin opens this month featuring Joyce’s notebooks and more
The last throes of summer – Frank McNally ushers in autumn, with no help from Baudelaire
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Skylarks stunned me, just like the poets the bird has hoisted into verse
Another Life: Michael Viney on his awe for a key voice in ‘Dawn Chorus 2018’
Gerard Manley Hopkins, a terrible teacher who hated UCD
The poet, as a professor in 19th-century UCD, could not control his students
A taste of Bob Dylan: 10 songs to beat The Band
Sheer, dizzying, heartbreaking brilliance: superfan Joseph O'Connor's selects his playlist
Another Life: Bluebells, boar and bracken
The animals’ rooting can keep both plants in check. But its toxin means that too much bracken on its own may not be good for them
Paul Muldoon: ‘Pearse and his fellow rebels were not terrorists’
When asked to write the text for a choral piece for the centenary of the Rising, I was determined not to gloss over the past or present a bogusly upbeat future
Stauntons on the Green sold to US investor
Three interlinked period houses in central Dublin contain 51 hotel bedrooms
Stauntons on the Green for sale at €12m
Four-star 51-bedroom hotel trades exceptionally well in key Dublin location
Brilliant teacher who served Spiritan order in Canada
John Geary: November 21st, 1931 - December 31st, 2014
Obituary: Heaney ‘the most important Irish poet since Yeats’
His books sold and continue to sell in the tens of thousands, while hordes of ‘Heaneyboppers’ flocked to his readings
Sigh of relief as Sylvia Plath returns in triumph for higher level English paper 2
The much-anticipated Plath question was described as a “gem”
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