Bloomsday was a sporadic, boozy and ill-mannered affair before becoming an annual event in 1994
In 1954 Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh and Anthony Cronin embarked on a drunken pilgrimage including public urination on Sandymount Strand
Anthony Cronin
Irish artist Michael Kane: ‘Patrick Kavanagh did nothing else but create art. And that was my ideal’
The Project Arts Centre founder, who is marking his 90th birthday with a solo show, is a firm believer in the idea that art truly matters. He lives fully surrounded by it
Margins of Terror – Frank McNally on the Irish language editor and arch-pedant Risteard Ó Foghludha
An Irishman’s Diary
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
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
‘He and I, always by chance’ – Lara Marlowe on Samuel Beckett and Albert Giacometti
An Irishwoman’s Diary
Future Imperfect – Frank McNally on Patrick Kavanagh’s 1950s vision of the year 2021
An Irishman’s Diary
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin receives 2020 Maths Week Ireland award
Dr Ní Shúilleabháin praised for raising public awareness of maths
Young man in a hurry (x2): Frank McNally is misled by a ‘dangling modifier’
When the start of a sentence loses touch with the end
Publiners: the best literary pub crawl you’ve never heard of
‘In reality, it was a boozier Bloomsday organised by the cast of The Inbetweeners’: a Dubliners tour of Dublin pubs
The best of Eileen Battersby, from Tolstoy to Paul Simon
Our late literary correspondent on Darina Allen, Martin Amis, Nigel Kennedy and more
Bernard Loughlin made Annaghmakerrig ‘an inclusive, non-judgmental, thrilling place’
Rosita Boland recalls the thoughtful, irreverent, hilarious director of the Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Colm Tóibín walks the ‘intense, haunted’ streets of Dublin
The city is full of ghosts ... in the house where Wilde grew up, the library where Yeats studied
Frank McNally on a Brexit-flavoured ‘Waiting for Godot’
Soft Border, Hard Beckett: An Irishman’s Diary
The Phantom Flann – An Irishman’s Diary about the framing of Brian O’Nolan for a photograph he wasn’t in
O’Nolan spent his career pretending to be other people. And sometimes even the other people were not who they were supposed to be
JP Donleavy: a glorious freedom
He was part of the Dublin bohemia that stopped Ireland succumbing to complete stultification
JP Donleavy obituary: acclaimed author of ‘a bawled-out comic song of sex’
The Westmeath resident and son of Irish parents felt no sentiment towards Ireland
Why we should stand up for Aosdána this Bloomsday
The artists’ association should not be attacked on the grounds of value for money
RHA Annual Exhibition 2017: A big, noisy, good-natured show
Open submission process and 600 artworks guarantee good – and puzzling – surprises
Portrait of an artist reveals a painter not a poet
Lot at upcoming auction tuns out to be self-portrait not portrait of Anthony Cronin
Anthony Cronin: a man of achievement
Few writers could rival his versatility or claim such influence as adviser to two Taoisigh
Anthony Cronin remembered as the ‘complete, consummate man’
Michael D Higgins among those to attend funeral of Irish poet who died aged 88
Tributes to Anthony Cronin highlight privately kind man
Publisher Dermot Bolger reflects on encouragement visible from teenage years
Anthony Cronin: last link to Dublin’s bohemian literary world
Tributes paid to poet’s part in setting up Aosdána to help artists and writers
Colm Tóibín on that fine writer Anthony Cronin
Cronin was a fine critic who lived the interior life of the mind with grace and style
Eileen Battersby: When Anthony Cronin dismissed me as an idiot
Complete and formidable literary man whose intelligence never overpowered his art
Fintan O’Toole: Anthony Cronin, a true man of letters
But his standing as a public intellectual is coloured by his relationship with Haughey
Poet and critic Anthony Cronin dies aged 88
Co Wexford born writer served as an arts adviser to former taoiseach Charles Haughey
Anthony Cronin: poet, novelist, biographer and cultural commentator
Obituary: He believed in giving voice to modern, more complex, often urban Irish life
Anthony Cronin: Poetry, politics and this all too short life
Cronin has had many lives: as a bar-stool confidant to Irish literary giants, adviser to Haughey and a renowned poet
Ideas for 2016: A year to paint a portrait
No selfie or Instagram picture can capture the essence of a person the way a painting can. Here, experienced portraitists give some pointers so you can have a go yourself
An artistic inheritance that pays off: Visual art round-up
Nick Miller was inspired by working in the late Edward McGuire’s donated studio
Imogen Stuart, Edna O’Brien and William Trevor elected Saoithe
Aosdána honour given by President Higgins for singular, sustained distinction in arts
Bloomsday 1982: when Jorge Luis Borges and Anthony Burgess came to pay homage
Anthony Cronin, begetter of the first Bloomsday celebration in 1954, organised one of Dublin’s greatest literary events to mark the centenary of James Joyce’s birth in 1982
Anthony Cronin’s unquenchable fighting spirit
Anthony Cronin has produced one of the most distinctive oeuvres of Irish poetry in decades
Teacher, poet and founder of an influential imprint
Michael Smith: September 1st, 1942 - November 15th, 2014
Clifden Arts Festival opens in north Connemara
Tribute to composer Seán Ó Riada and Druid Theatre productions among highlights
Flying cows, spiralling elves and spicy feet among Baboró festival events in Galway
Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published
Brought to Book: Joseph O’Connor on why reading is a more creative act than writing
‘If there is a Hell being prepared for me, it will be a dinner party. But I’d like to be in a bar, late at night in New York, with Colm Toibin, Patti Smith, Dickens, St John of the Cross, Toni Morrison, Keats and Emily Bronte, with her brother Branwell leading the singsong while arm-wrestling’
Aosdána is not perfect, but does anybody have a better idea?
If Aosdána is a broken tool, the situation it was set up to remedy is still a broken situation
The Irish in London in fact and in fiction
As President Higgins makes the first Irish State visit to Britain, a new book explores how Irish writers have treated the emigrant experience
Books that define Ireland
Can our country be summed up by one book? We ask some experts to nominate candidates
Author Maeve Binchy estate valued at €10 million
Best-selling novelist and playright was one of Ireland’s most recognisable writers
Artists remember beloved colleague Patrick Scott
Writer Anthony Cronin described Scott as ‘a person of great charm and presence’
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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