Lady Gregory

Diarmaid Ferriter: The terrorising Black and Tans had no monopoly on brutality in 1920

The most sustainable choice of all could also be a good investment

Late poet and playwright was a storyteller who used his own silence to listen

Laetitia Colombani’s new novel, the lives of three women deliver tales of resilience

Travel Bag: James Joyce suite reopens at the Intercontinental Hotel, and TUI revamps its booking app

Theme of natural world features in forthcoming auctions

Paintings at centre of 100-year-old row are part of Hugh Lane’s contested will

Vote 100: The life-long trade unionist advocated for improved conditions and representation for women

The city is full of ghosts ... in the house where Wilde grew up, the library where Yeats studied

An Irishman’s Diary

Work made for children used to be rare, but there's now a rich bounty of shows

For a book tour with a difference, visit some of the literary world’s most interesting homes

Show first staged in 1973 and Polydor Records signed Fermoy combo to record album

Attitudes in Border regions returning to brutal psychology of Troubles mistrust

Una Birch Pope-Hennessy’s account of a visit to Dublin is a who’s-who of the revolution

Route costing €550m includes first ‘bat bridge’ for wildlife and opens five months early

ThisIsPopBaby brings its cabaret, club culture and GAA aerial dance to Vicar Street

‘The Hidden Ireland’ book shows 20 country houses evolving elegantly to meet modern needs

It’s taken us 13 years to convert a Galway castle into a home and Airbnb business, but now it’s time to move back to England

Modern Irish Catholics, from the cultural to the a la carte and conservative

Bishop John Kirby recalls the ‘dynamic’ man he came to know

From ‘Dress suitably, and buy a revolver’ and 'A terrible beauty' to 'We all partied'

Irish connections: William Bourke Cockran represented the US all over the world but is barely remembered in his home county of Sligo

Digital exhibition exploring JM Synge’s celebrated play marks 110th anniversary of Abbey riot

Comedian Gráinne Maguire has some valuable advice for soon-to-be third-level students

John and Gary Coyle share hints of discord; John Butler Yeats demands close viewing

Gilligan’s ‘literary fiction’ debut inventively connects up Ireland’s Jewish narratives

This newspaper dismissed Edward Keegan when he left his desk to fight in the Easter Rising. Now, to honour him, it has bought his 1916 medal to put on permanent display

Seán O’Casey’s play and its staging have always been cultural and political lightning rods

Abbey Theatre unveils digitised papers revealing role of era’s Irish literary giants

Long hair flowing from under his helmet, spear and shield in hand, the hero of the Ulster Cycle is the epitome of the valiant Celt. But that image comes from a magazine article by a US president. It’s a sign of the cultural malleability of the idea of Celticism

The National Theatre’s maddeningly male 1916 centenary season highlights the difficulties that face women who work in Irish theatre

There were strong prices and big surprises at the Chatsworth sale at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers

The Nobel laureate’s early enthusiasm for a brave old world of glorious Celtic warriors ended in postwar disillusion and disgust

The poet had a close relationship with this publication throughout his career

Like Beckett, Yeats imagined every detail of his plays on the stage. Like Beckett, he has to be done well or not at all. And his ideas are now even more urgent

A big donation this week means that Thoor Ballylee, the 16th-century tower house once owned by the poet, will reopen this summer, in time for the 150th anniversary of his birth