Go ahead, make my day: Pat Kenny gets all Dirty Harry about street ‘yobs’
Radio: The Newstalk host hears lurid tales of ‘urban terrorism’ on the streets of Dublin
Mary Oliver, prize-winning poet, dies at 83
Her work, with its plain language, drew a wide following but divided critics
Poets invited to ring in 2016 with €10,000 Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize
There’s nothing like a deadline to get the creative juices flowing, though a big prize helps too, writes Rebecca O’Connor, editor of the Moth magazine
Poetic beasts: rhyming cats and dogs
Poets find fruitful focus in writing about their domestic pets, says Maureen Kennelly
The Moth: from flight of fancy to successful arts magazine
From the unlikely setting of a farmhouse in Cavan comes ‘The Moth’, one of Ireland’s ‘coolest poetry magazines’ that has now gained an international following, and is the work of a husband and wife team
‘Poetry’s advocates don’t need to go on the defensive: it speaks for itself’
As he publishes his eighth collection of poetry, 46 years after his first work appeared in print, the Irish Times Poetry Editor recalls how verse insinuated its way into his life via Shakespeare, Dylan Thomas and the Beats
Billy Collins: ‘When I start a poem, I assume the indifference of readers’
The former US poet laureate believes in bringing poetry to the widest possible audience. Some critics have found his poetry to be lacking in complexity, but he’ll take that over wilful obscurity any day
Band of brothers: One family’s story of the first World War
The Collins family saw six sons go to war. Four died, a fifth went missing, one returned home
Artists and audience asked to mix it up a little for overhauled Kilkenny festival
The Gloaming one of many artists in residence in Marble City
Weekend of careers fairs, toy trains and musical festivals ahead
More than 10,000 have registered for Career Zoo at the Convention Centre in Dublin
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