Cáit O’Riordan: ‘I quit the Pogues at 21. I got sober ... didn’t see Shane much’
The musician on her love of the Irish people, her brief but formative years in The Pogues, and how her attitude to alcohol differed from Shane MacGowan’s
Paul Muldoon
Sally Rooney: ‘I enjoy writing about men ... the dangerous charisma of the oppressor class’
Fans are drawn like moths to the author’s flame during her two appearances Cúirt festival
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise
Paul Brady: ‘There’s a huge coterie of Irish nationalists who don’t want a United Ireland’
The singer has been reflecting on his life to compile The Archive, his new box set. It’s been a rich, rewarding six decades in music
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
Author Giles Foden: ‘Cromwell by Brendan Kennelly was a big influence on The Last King of Scotland’
The author on his Irish literary influences, Paul Muldoon’s tear-inducing poetry, and flat-capped gombeens
Poet Paul Muldoon: ‘My dad, a market gardener, was a guy who could barely write his own name’
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, academic and musician Paul Muldoon on growing up in a nationalist family in Co Armagh, life in Belfast during the Troubles and moving to the US
The Guide: Girls Aloud, Eric Clapton, Muldoon’s Picnic and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
May 11th-17th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
McCartney: A Life in Lyrics podcast – Deliciously intimate conversations between the Beatle and Paul Muldoon
Podcast review: An extraordinary audio journey featuring find after glorious find by Paul McCartney
Eddie Linden obituary: A true literary representative of the islands of Britain and Ireland
From unhappy beginnings, he finally found his place as a champion and publisher of a glittering and eclectic assortment of poets
Paul Muldoon proposed as parliamentary poet laureate
Poetry Ireland made the suggestion after news emerged of discussions about appointing poet to write verse for use in Dáil, Seanad and at State events
Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire: 250 years of Ireland’s touchstone love poem
Lament for Art O’Leary, which Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill wrote for her murdered husband on May 4th, 1773, is still hugely powerful
The late Frank Callanan has his final say on Joyce and Ulysses
TV review: RTÉ’s 100 Years of Ulysses is a fitting swansong for the barrister and scholar
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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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