Notable deaths in 2025, from David Lynch to David Hanly
Paddy Hill, Jennifer Johnston, Virginia Giuffre, Henry Mount Charles, Prunella Scales and Ed Moloney were also among those who died
Michael Longley
Derek Mahon: A True Note – an anniversary appreciation by John Banville
The Belfast-born poet, who died five years ago, left us a precious legacy of transcendent beauty, vigour, wit and profundity
In pictures: Portraits of Irish writers as you have never seen them before
Former New Yorker photographer Steve Pyke has compiled a striking book of portraits beginning with Neil Jordan in 1985 and including Marian Keyes, Edna O’Brien, Sebastian Barry
Seán Rocks: Ireland has lost one of its great cultural champions
Late broadcaster’s easy wit and big-hearted spirit belied a lifelong devotion to our rich culture
Michael Longley funeral: Poets and politicians gather for writer who ‘touched the soul and imagination of many’
Michael D Higgins joined Theo Dorgan, Frank Ormsby, Medbh McGuckian and others at ceremony
Michael D Higgins leads tributes to Michael Longley: ‘One of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced’
President and fellow writers celebrate the legacy of one of Ireland’s finest poets
Award-winning poet Michael Longley dies aged 85
Michael Longley, from Belfast, received several awards for his 13 collections, including the Feltrinelli Prize
Michael Longley: ‘Most men don’t like intelligent women. I just hang on their every word’
The poet met his wife, Edna, as a student at Trinity College Dublin. She has been the constant in a life that Longley reflects on in his new selected poems
North stars: ‘The vitality of Northern Irish writing has always coincided with political upheaval’
Belfast has a healthy literary scene, closely connected with Queen’s University, whose creative writing tutors include poets Gail McConnell and Stephen Sexton
Brendan Kennelly obituary: Gifted poet, academic and storyteller
A writer who grew up in a pub, Kennelly learned how to tell a story and hold an audience
How The Irish Times reviewed ‘an impressive young Ulster poet’ named Seamus Heaney in 1966
Michael Longley’s review of Death of a Naturalist was not entirely uncritical
Another Life: None flies straighter or with more urgency than the wren
Michael Viney: This little bird’s adaptability and pioneering spirit has created about 50 distinct races in different habitats worldwide
‘My passport’s green’: why was Seamus Heaney used in Northern Ireland branding?
Use of poet in campaign for 100th anniversary of Northern Ireland causes controversy
Let’s have a competition for a new national anthem
Militaristic, nationalistic language of Amhrán na bhFiann will have to go
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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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