Aosdána

Artist Maria Simonds-Gooding settled in Dunquin in the 1960s in a Blasket islander’s cottage

Calls for council to restore sound installationthat played original recordings of interviews with emigrants

Galway is struggling with capacity problems and homelessness. A new travel award will not help

President leads tributes to writer and member of Aosdána, who died aged 90

Previous holders of title include Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Seamus Heaney

Kinsella told taoiseach Aosdána stipend was unfair on poets as none could live entirely off their art

Artist Janet Pierce divides her time between Portugal and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre gate lodge

Eight members of Arts Council-funded body had passed away since last general assembly

‘I’m the person who should speak out ... I did what I thought was right’

Patrick Pye, religious painter and stained-glass artist, died on Thursday

College carrying €1m deficit faces criticism over paintings of president and chairman

New system will simplify procedures, promote new artists and improve feedback

The Belfast poet on his latest collection and the ‘clickety-clickety-click’ thrill of writing

Water charges refunds would pay the total annual cost of Aosdána for more than 30 years. So why is the Arts Council attacking it

Patrick Pye, a religious artist who has fading sight, deemed ineligible for stipend

To mark International Women’s Day on Wednesday, here are 30 women who are shaping Irish life

‘What could be more magnificent than a divine feathered serpent snaking along vast stretches of the wall’s 2,000-mile extent?’

Few writers could rival his versatility or claim such influence as adviser to two Taoisigh

Grafton Architects collaborated on the UTEC project with local partners to create a new campus building for Lima’s specialist engineering university

The Flying Enterprise in Cork city says English ‘most sensible’ language to speak at work

Tributes paid to Waterford-born jazz guitarists who was ‘one of the world’s greatest’

Group calls for new protections for heritage sites following Disney’s use of Skellig Michael

Author described as ‘the missing link between high modernism and the present’

Playwright ‘part of the theatrical life of every theatre house’ in Ireland, Abbey director says

Gateway, by Michael Warren, swapped for another work following calls for its removal

Three-bedroom period end-of-terrace for €425,000

Aosdána told cut in funding an illustration of the arts’ ‘peripheral’ place in Irish society

Dublin-born author was twice a winner of the Oz Whitehead Award for drama

Teacher, translator and co-founder of New Writers’ Press championed 1930s Irish poets

Poet Micheal O’Siadhail wrote nine of his collections in this house, which has seen many a gathering of artists and writers, from Louis le Brocquy to John McGahern, as well as having had the creative treatment itself from Lawrence and Long Architects

Robinson has won international acclaim for his detailed maps of Connemara, the Burren and the Aran Islands

Mary O’Donnell’s latest novel explores the legacy of Northern Ireland’s ‘Disappeared’

President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to Limerick-born Aosdána member

‘A poet of oceanic forlorness in all his writings’

‘We need to see that there are different ways of looking at the world to that served to us by the mass media, which is necessarily pretty banal,’ argues Desmond Fennell

The mood was combative, with some members appearing to claim that the nature of the organisation’s work puts it beyond accountability

Barrie Cooke: June 13th, 1931 - March 4th, 2014

Writer Anthony Cronin described Scott as ‘a person of great charm and presence’

Margaretta D’Arcy arrested in Galway yesterday

Having finished as chair of the Arts Council after five years, Moylan answers criticism of the funding process, says the council has no role to play in Limerick and looks forward to producing theatre again