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His death 100 years ago was a loss to Irish literature and to post-independence Ireland
Slane-born poet and soldier was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele
A forgotten blackbird? The legacy of the soldier poet who was killed on July 31st, 1917
British soldier died on July 31st, 1917, the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele
Radio Review: The RTÉ host’s interview with Orla Brady turns cringeworthy
Standard-bearers struggle to hold up their colours on windswept hillside
The most merciless enemy was the foul mud and with it the stink of wet rotting bodies
Poet was one of those civilised citizens of vision who would have contributed to the birth and growth of the new Ireland had they not died before their time
Royal says Glasnevin cemetery was ‘deeply moving’ and ‘most memorable moment’
Val Carmen’s ‘Assembly’ has 1,216 pages and lists those whose died around Ypres in WW1
Gerard Smyth and Seán McSweeney’s ‘The Yellow River’ explores their links to county
As the centenary draws to an end, now is a good time to visit the Pearse Museum
Kettle died to liberate France which has long been an inspiration for Irish republicans
Martin McGuinness speaks at ceremony remembering poet who died in first World War
With President Hollande set to visit Glasnevin to mark the Irish role in the World Wars, we can acknowledge duality and remember those on opposite sides 100 years ago
West Cork Chamber Music Festival heard pieces by Deirdre Gribbin and Seán Doherty
Time has come for an ethics of narrative hospitality to replace our past entrenchments
Many concerned for the future as surprise and shock greets Brexit result
Kevin Vickers involved in arrest of man during event to remember British dead
Tipperary community unveils life-size statue of Rising leader and poet executed in 1916
Deputy First Minister says it’s ‘only proper and right’ to honour sacrifice made by Irish
Vital to remember those Irishmen who died in conflict, says Martin McGuinness
Gerald Dawe discusses some of the background to his new book, Of War and War’s Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing
The politics they returned to meant it is only in recent years that the stories of the Irish men and women who died – and wrote – in the Great War have been heard
The Great War transformed our understanding of war, forcing writers to describe the world in new ways, and in a new language
War writing at heart is about the ambivalence of loyalty to class, nation, and friends, and of belief and the business of being human, and more recent Irish writing on the Great War, in reopening a closed chapter in our history, is no different in exploring all those ambiguities
Stories of thousands of Irishmen who died in Dardanelles banished in post-1916 Ireland
‘The memory of that Christmas truce is so important on this island at this time’
Europe Letter: Irish writer Francis Ledwidge and Welsh poet Hedd Wyn were both killed in action 97 years ago today
Katharine Tynan to Francis Ledwidge after his death, July 31st, 1917, in the battle of Passchendaele
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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