Patrick Kavanagh

In a Word ... Complaint

A story about Brendan Behan’s lighthouse painting days is amusing enough to be true

The year of Ulysses: 2022 marks centenary of Joyce’s experimental masterpiece

Beloved by millions, incomprehensible to millions more, the novel is now firmly embedded in Irish culture

High moral ground – Frank McNally on taking to the pulpit

An Irishman’s Diary

Could the new space telescope unlock the secrets of the universe?

The James Webb Space Telescope may tell us more about dark matter and other mysteries

Hedge schooled: the lure of suburban privet for well-oiled writers

An Irishman’s Diary

Canal Bank Murder: the case of Patrick Kavanagh’s attempted ‘assassination’

An Irishman’s Diary

Poet in suburbia: A memoir about Patrick Kavanagh’s Stillorgan spring

An Irishman’s Dairy

Brendan Kennelly obituary: Gifted poet, academic and storyteller

A writer who grew up in a pub, Kennelly learned how to tell a story and hold an audience

Seen any UFOs in Tipperary lately? A 340-year-old book records sightings

De Burca rare book sale includes book with accounts of ‘something like a ship’ in the sky

Fall rising - On harvest moons and other happenings

An Irishman’s Diary

On its 90th anniversary remembering the Irish Press

An Irishman’s Diary

Poetic Parishes – Frank McNally on a new book about Baggotonia and the new Kavanagh museum in Inniskeen

An Irishman’s Diary

Racing Uncertainty – Frank McNally on myths, mistaken memories, and the Ascot Gold Cup

An Irishman’s Diary

Claddagh records relaunched after deal with Universal Music Ireland

Label founded by Garech Browne in 1959 to remaster and digitise archive

Actor Tom Hickey, star of The Riordans, has died

President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘an artist of total commitment’

From a 19th-century table that inspired a lament to the work of a modern craftsman

Sheppard’s Great Irish Interiors sale features two tables by Cork men 150 years apart

Future Imperfect – Frank McNally on Patrick Kavanagh’s 1950s vision of the year 2021

An Irishman’s Diary

Spring Fall – Frank McNally on the dangers of March, the allure of apples, and Pontius Pilate’s fitness regime

An Irishman’s Diary

Game, Set, Mismatch – Frank McNally on journalism’s favourite word, Billy Brennan revisited, and a tale of two Zoom events

An Irishman’s Diary

Why did ‘Walter Mitty’ solicitors veer into life of crime?

Flynn and Clarke used fake IDs and wigs to defraud banks and credit unions of €400,000

Painting Dublin: A visual history of Ireland’s capital city

Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. This book takes a very different approach

Lessons from history – An Irishman’s Diary on Donogh O’Malley

Introduction of free secondary education was a key moment

Death of well-known priest Msgr Tom Stack

Limerick-born documentary maker and writer served in Dublin all of his clerical life

In a Word... goodbye 2020

Rarely in any of our lives can the phrase happy new year have had such resonance as now

Rite&Reason: Hopeful waiting of Advent has more meaning than ever

Covid-19 injects extra anticipation into Advent as we prepare for Christmas

Fintan O’Toole: Joe Biden is the US’s mourner-in-chief

Haunted by intimate and public grief, he is the most Gothic figure in US politics

What is the going rate for a home in... Co Monaghan?

There’s a lot more to this Border county than Patrick Kavanagh’s stony grey soil

Ploughs and Stars – Frank McNally on the furloughed furrows of October 2020

An Irishman’s Diary

Claddagh Records agrees licensing deal with Universal

Independent label’s back catalogue includes Chieftains and Seán Ó Riada

Ladies First – Frank McNally on holy wells, unholy riots, and a landmark in literary lesbianism

The concerts and events still taking place across Ireland this summer

Government restrictions have limited capacity but some festivals are still on

Four-Dimensional Green Fields – Frank McNally on unified field theory, de Valera’s Ireland, and a new GAA club in Belfast

Super grass: the arching, architectural forms of wild meadows

Michael Viney: Wild grasses have loved the mood swings of our climate this year

The poet as press attaché – An Irishman’s Diary on John Betjeman in Ireland

Seán Moran: How compulsive Meath-Dublin saga changed GAA landscape

Widespread national appeal of televised live games became clearly evident in 1991

How you can share in Patrick Kavanagh’s isolation at Inniskeen this year

Frank McNally: Refurbished Kavanagh centre due to have a low-key opening in July

‘I am deeply interested in Ireland’s complex past’

‘I have a ritual of making tea, lighting a candle and then I am gone into my fictional world’

Palace Bar owner urges more Government help for hospitality sector

‘A lot of old pubs are narrow, small. It’s hard to impose distancing,’ says Willie Aherne

Through a Glass, Darkly – Frank McNally on the mythology of Dublin pubs

Words to Live By (two metres apart) on World Poetry Day 2020

Hungry Ghosts – Frank McNally on the Roman festival of Feralia

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