Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon wins this year's Irish Times Poetry Now award
The winner of this year's Irish Times Poetry Now award is the Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon for Against the Clock (Gallery Press). This is the third t(...)
Miriam Lord's week: Coveney poetically tightens British ties over dinner
Miriam Lord
It's been a busy week for Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney as Britain's Brexit bandwagon lurches unsteadily towards God only kn(...)
Gig of the Week: Kilkenny Arts Festival
Hugh Linehan
August 4, 2018, 05:00
With Galway International Arts Festival safely (and, by most accounts, successfully) packed away for another year, the stage is set for the summer's l(...)
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Brahms, Beethoven and Bertie on the menu
An open-air production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in Kilkenny Castle, along with world premieres of new dance and circus performances,(...)
Michael Jackson at Lugalla: He asked for 'the portrait of the freaky-looking man with the frizzy hair' to be taken down
Lara Marlowe
The first time I visited Anthony Palliser's Paris home, back in 2007, I found the poets Derek Mahon and John Montague in the Anglo-Belgian painter's s(...)
Climbers to mark 25th anniversary of first Irish ascent of Everest
Lorna Siggins
The 25th anniversary of the first successful ascent of Mount Everest by Irish climbers is due to be marked with events in the Dublin and Mourne mounta(...)
'Shakespeare is for life, not just for the Leaving Cert'
Deirdre Falvey
April 26, 2018, 01:00
Midsummer is scheduled for late summer in Kilkenny this year. This is not a strange seasonal blip: A Midsummer Night's Dream in the city's Castle Yard(...)
Hodges Figgis: A 250-year-old story of selling books
Hodges Figgis closed down for four hours in 1995. It was to allow for the legal transfer of ownership from UK company Pentos to new owners Thorn EMI, (...)
Leontia Flynn wins Irish Times Poetry Now Award
Gerard Smyth
The winner of this year's Irish Times Poetry Now award is Leontia Flynn for her collection The Radio. The €2,000 award will be presented on Saturday(...)
Declan Kiberd: Irish writers were an early warning system about abuse
Our national poet WB Yeats said that every Irish writer had a decision to take: whether to express Ireland or exploit it. In his day, the choice lay b(...)