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President references Wordsworth poem Michael in letter to singer-songwriter
Why you shouldn’t work from bed (and a guide to doing it anyway)
The lure of bed is hard to resist for any home worker. Or it may have become a necessity
Dial-a-poet: Cocooners to benefit from ‘uplifting’ verse
Poems to be read over the phone to combat isolation as part of Poetry Ireland initiative
Wordsworth’s daffodils were not lonely – or even alone
Former rugby player Ollie Campbell said he enjoyed the poem because it was ‘simple, like myself’
‘Leaving the oncology ward, I wondered what I was going to do with myself’
Daffodil Centres offer vital support for people during and after their cancer diagnosis
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Flaubert’s travel diary goes up for auction for €600,000
The handwritten book reveals the Madame Bovary author’s literary struggles, and is part of an auction cache that includes first editions of works by Goethe and the Marquis de Sade
Scottish bard Ossian ‘fabricated’ from Irish mythology
Researchers link mathematical properties of ‘epic’ texts to hero tales of Fenian cycle
British shops warned over customers eating daffodils
Bulbs mistaken for onions and leaves for Chinese vegetables, warns health body
The Loafing Heroes: raggle-taggle songs about Casement and Kierkegaard
The band want to bring back the fine art of loafing, along with a few more serious concerns
Billie Barry funeral ‘perfectly-choreographed celebration’
Barry instilled ‘confidence, competence and creativity’ into generations of children
Move over Chris Hadfield as new space commander tweets as Gaeilge from space
Col Douglas Wheelock sends message to Ireland on St Patrick’s Day
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
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