Colm Tóibín walks the ‘intense, haunted’ streets of Dublin
The city is full of ghosts ... in the house where Wilde grew up, the library where Yeats studied
Poetry: from Anne Haverty’s wry sensibility to Seamus Heaney’s family affair
Books by Haverty, Theo Dorgan and James Harpur, plus Heaney poems selected by his family
The aristocrat who became an Irish revolutionary
Renouncing a life of wealth and privilege, the spirited and compassionate Constance Markievicz devoted herself to fighting for the causes of Irish freedom, women’s rights, and the poor
The faces and brains behind the doors of the Dublin Neurological Institute
Patients suffering from PPND show symptoms similar to Alzheimer’s but the causes are different
Anthony Cronin remembered as the ‘complete, consummate man’
Michael D Higgins among those to attend funeral of Irish poet who died aged 88
Anthony Cronin: last link to Dublin’s bohemian literary world
Tributes paid to poet’s part in setting up Aosdána to help artists and writers
Colm Tóibín on that fine writer Anthony Cronin
Cronin was a fine critic who lived the interior life of the mind with grace and style
Poet and critic Anthony Cronin dies aged 88
Co Wexford born writer served as an arts adviser to former taoiseach Charles Haughey
Anthony Cronin: Poetry, politics and this all too short life
Cronin has had many lives: as a bar-stool confidant to Irish literary giants, adviser to Haughey and a renowned poet
In praise of Anne Haverty by Manchán Magan
Irish women writers: ‘A skilled wordsmith capable of wielding an inked scalpel to delightful and dastardly effect’
The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland
Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction
A nice fantasy, but don’t give up the day job
The first novel by Kirsty Wark, the BBC Newsnight presenter, is surprisingly unambitious ‘women’s fiction’
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