Ithell Colquhoun: The forgotten ‘Celtic fringe’ surrealist who could be art’s next big star
Born in India, then sent home to England as a baby, the artist developed an affinity with the ‘Celtic fringe’ and the sexual preoccupations of WB Yeats
WB Yeats
Delicate task of returning lantern that lit Yeats’s way up ‘the winding stair’ from the US to its Galway home
A stained glass lantern owned by WB Yeats which wound its way across the Atlantic has been lovingly brought back to Ireland after almost 100 years
Papers handed to Irish ambassador cast doubt on whether Yeats’s remains were correctly identified
Nephew of painter Hannah Gluckstein, a member of poet’s late circle, approached embassy with information in 1978
It’s time Dublin had a statue to unconventional, complex Maud Gonne MacBride
Attitudes to her have been reductive, shaped by the mores of the time and her failed marriage
One Leg One Eye review: Forget Fairytale of New York. This is a soundtrack of the real Irish Christmas
Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise
Ralph Fiennes at the Abbey Theatre: An electrifying, moving reading of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets
The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024
Fintan O’Toole on his career: ‘You had to learn to live with the fact that some people despised you’
The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex
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
Sligo hotel with sea views for €7m
Four-star 98 bed Yeats Country Hotel is in picturesque village of Rosses Point
A New York Times book critic spent five days in Dublin. Here’s how he got on
The city is a soulful playground for the kind of people who have spectacles on their nose and autumn in their hearts
A History of Irish Magic: Occultism of national life explored
Sally and James North suggest the Druidic tradition and Brehon Law enshrined magic in Gaelic culture and injected public affairs with mysticism
Francis Bacon’s Nanny: A peek into the darkness of the artist’s childhood
Maylis Besserie’s novel lays bare the cruelty of Bacon’s father as seen through the eyes of the family’s domestic servant Jessie Lightfoot
I wanted to write a book about Irish women’s writing. They told me to include men
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
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