Poetry collection signed by Seamus Heaney among rare books for auction
Poetry, fiction, geography and children’s books among lots at Fonsie Mealy sale
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney 1939-2013 – “The space we stood around had been emptied” (Clearances, The Haw Lantern, 1987)
Cúirt literature festival at 40: ‘There is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world’
When I was an impoverished student sustained by Pot Noodles, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature introduced me to literature I would not have encountered otherwise
‘Thanks to the bogs, life will continue. Just not ours’: The Irish bog and our national psyche
BogSkin, an exhibition by the Royal Hibernian Academy, prods us by showing that Ireland’s bogs aren’t simply repositories for our collective unconsciousness, they are precious sustainers of life and, in a hugely destructive inflection of past habits, we are sacrificing them
A mummy’s tale from Cork to Cairo: ‘It’s like the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. His body represents us all’
A new book by the artist Dorothy Cross tells the remarkable story of Cecil, UCC’s Egyptian mummy, and his return home
St Patrick: 13 facts you need to know about Ireland’s patron saint
What do we really know about our national apostle and what is merely myth?
As it turns 100, meet the most reliable New Yorker you’ll ever encounter
The illustrious magazine remains rooted in the principles and traditions of print journalism. There is surely a lesson there
Experiences of Troubles victims have run like submerged streams beneath the dry land of blame
Families have different views on the Omagh inquiry, but what they all hold sacred is the need for their loved ones’ stories to be heard
Author Elaine Garvey: When I was a teenager, you couldn’t be ‘easy’ but you couldn’t be ‘frigid’ either. Whatever you did was wrong
The debut novelist on her hotly tipped book, The Wardrobe Department and how she doesn’t know what she thinks about something until she starts writing about it
‘It’s boobing out!’ Kim Kardashian cries. Irish Times readers will recognise this reference to the Heaney poem of that name
The celebrity clan have so Truman Show-ed their existence that all significant events in their lives have occurred on camera
Ireland’s first Michelin star: ‘It made the front page of the London Times, but only got a mention in the Examiner’
Declan and Patsy Ryan recall receiving the restaurant industry’s highest accolade in 1974 for their Arbutus Lodge
Faber to publish definitive edition of Seamus Heaney’s poetry
Edited by Rosie Lavan and Bernard O’Donoghue with Matthew Hollis, it will be published on October 9th
An Irishman at Oxford: It was an education in being an outsider. I felt alienated from the very start
The good, the bad and the ugly parts of studying English through Irish eyes at Oxford
Michael D Higgins leads tributes to Michael Longley: ‘One of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced’
President and fellow writers celebrate the legacy of one of Ireland’s finest poets
Award-winning poet Michael Longley dies aged 85
Michael Longley, from Belfast, received several awards for his 13 collections, including the Feltrinelli Prize
Poet Grace Wilentz: ‘Ireland has been very generous to me. There’s an abundance of fresh air and bookstores and intellectual stimulation’
The New York-born poet on having resilience foisted upon her as a teenager when both of her parents died
New poetry: Works by Niall Campbell, Elisa Gonzalez, John McAuliffe and John Fitzgerald
Reviews: The Island in the Sound; Grand Tour; National Theatre; and Long Distance
John Montague: A Poet’s Life by Adrian Frazier: ‘ruthless intimacy’
Adrian Frazier’s no-holds-barred biography of the American-born Irish poet acknowledges the cost of a life turned ‘into the achievement of poetry’
A Dante for Ireland: Exile and purgatory reinvented for the dislocated
Colcester, Florence, Belfast and elsewhere all intermingle in Philip Terry’s version of Dante’s Purgatorio
My Belfast friends can buy a house and start a family more easily than those in Dublin
In their daily lives, Northerners seem more grown-up than Southerners
Poets’ prose: Thinking about questions posed by poems, from Seamus Heaney to Eavan Boland
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien; Citizen Poet: New & Selected Essays by Eavan Boland; Questioning Ireland by Thomas McCarthy
A Benedict Kiely Reader: Drink to the Bird and Selected Essays review - Words on the importance of place
Wisdom and deftness were tools of writer whose subjects ranged from the lyrical to the sectarian
David Marcus: Editing Ireland, edited by Paul Delaney and Deirdre Madden: Rich miscellany of poems, stories and reminiscences
This centenary compilation pays tribute to the pre-eminent editor’s mission to enhance and uphold Ireland’s literary culture
Róisín Ingle on Kathleen Watkins: She loved life, poetry and Gaybo. Conversation flowed from her like music
Kathleen Watkins was one of the most enthusiastic people I’ve ever met
80 at 80 by Paul Durcan: a poet with a deep understanding
Through a lifetime of immense public and personal crises, through times of uncertainty and loss, Paul Durcan has remained true to his art
Singer Joan Baez to visit home of Seamus Heaney for poetry reading
The human rights campaigner will attend benefit screening of a documentary about her life in Dublin in December
Michael Longley: ‘Most men don’t like intelligent women. I just hang on their every word’
The poet met his wife, Edna, as a student at Trinity College Dublin. She has been the constant in a life that Longley reflects on in his new selected poems
Gerald Dawe: Belfast poet and academic who explored the everyday with wit and plain speech
Part of the so-called Coleraine Cluster of writers, Dawe explored a less-voiced north Belfast lower middle-class upbringing
Seamus Heaney pointed to an ecological spirituality that is furiously tender to the earth
Rite & Reason: As the environmental crisis has accelerated I find myself often thinking of the poet
Author Andrew Hughes on his new novel, writing the mind of a teenager and Killua Castle
Hughes’s new book, Emma, Disappeared, follows James Lyster, whose life begins to unravel after the disappearance of a high-achieving university graduate
In a Word...Good Friday
Seamus Heaney was born on Thursday, April 13th, 1939. ‘Thursday’s child has far to go.’
Oisín Leech: ‘I’m a much bigger dosser than you might think, but when I was writing these songs I worked incredibly hard for a year’
Clued-in fans would know the musician as one half of The Lost Brothers, but the solo work that began as something to pass the time during lockdown soon turned into an idea he couldn’t ignore
Simon Harris finds channelling Seamus Heaney is not so simple
The presumptive taoiseach used a familiar quote when introducing himself as leader, but whose line was it anyway?
SDLP’s New Ireland Commission explores path to unity through ‘partnership, co-operation and reconciliation’
Claire Hanna says ‘those of us who want to talk about a new Ireland have an obligation to spell out a lot more exactly what we mean by that’
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