‘The sun rises’: Damian Lewis pays tribute to Helen McCrory with Derek Mahon poem
Actor uses tribute event to talk publicly for first time about wife, who died of cancer
Neck trouble, philosophy and defiance: A literary guide to middle age
Our middle years have had a makeover thanks to some excellent recent literature
Wildlife wonders for little people
Children’s books: from wood mice and red squirrels to beetles and termites, there’s plenty of nature in these new releases
100 books by women you have to read
Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Marian Keyes and Eimear McBride all appear on the list
Looking for an answer to the national question
This month sees Ireland’s national theatre playing in London, and its British equivalent coming to Dublin
Dan Mulhall: the ambassador who defied categorisation
London Letter: Praise as Mulhall moves from Brexit Britain to Trump’s America
Paul Durcan: the most playful poet in Ireland
His latest book contains 67 poems on such disparate topics as the weather forecast, the Syrian war, a visit to the GP, retail therapy, clampers and Seamus Heaney. There is sadness, illness, anger and trademark humour
Paula Meehan: the poet at 60
The Hennessy Hall of Fame poet looks back on her childhood and the path that led her to ‘stand up for the word’
Jeremy Paxman’s Great War: the unrevised edition
Jeremy Paxman is best known as the pugilistic presenter of ‘Newsnight’, but he pulls no punches in his new book on Britain during the first World War
Funeral Mass celebrates ‘the beauty of Seamus Heaney...in his being’
He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’
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