The new Ireland Professor of Poetry is looking forward to bringing some fresh ideas to the role but is ‘not in the business of ramming poetry down anybody’s throats’
The man behind the immensely popular Poetry Unbound podcast discusses the two books he’s publishing this year, early objections to Patrick Kavanagh, and the vitalness of surprise
The New York-born poet on having resilience foisted upon her as a teenager when both of her parents died
Theatre: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s translation of the tragedy by Aeschylus finds parallels with Irish history but sometimes succumbs to information overload
‘We have lost so many people,’ Michael D Higgins says after deaths of two Irish poets
Irish has been instrumentalised for centuries in many ways beyond domain of cultural nationalism
Honours Irish paper would have pleased ‘virtually every student at higher level’
Philip King, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Liam Carson, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, Diarmaid de Faoite pay tribute
Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland
However, Fine Gael doesn’t get too many votes on islands now, several residents recalled
Writer ‘pushed the boundaries of Irish language literature through his dynamic prose’
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