The republican’s multifaceted life is remembered 100 years after his death

War and illness tore the family apart in the late 19th and early 20th century

‘This is just to prove I can write,’ royal joked as he signed visitors’ book in Government Buildings

Easter Rising commemorations begin on 101st anniverary

Tricolour was taken down by British soldier John Le Provost during heavy fighting

Word-of-mouth sensation has made the novelist $10m in the last year, outselling George RR Martin, but still earning a fraction of James Patterson’s $95m

Wall include names of all who died in conflicts on island between 1916 and 1923

Glasnevin Trust to press ahead memorial wall to further ‘understanding’ of the conflict

Ireland’s struggle against a ‘larger and overbearing neighbour’ was significant

Patrick Ness fell into writing young adult fiction by accident, but he’s had huge success in a genre that’s barely a decade old

Young adult fiction is the largest growing genre in contemporary fiction

A revamped list of texts has been brought in at secondary level. But is it too modern?

Louise O’Neill’s second novel is inspired by victim-blaming after assaults at US high schools

First years should take advantage of all college opportunities, academic and social

Wreaths laid at graves of two ‘giants of the Free State’ by Fine Gael ministers

Pearse graveside oration regarded as a rallying cry for republicanism

Service marks centenary of ‘The Last General Absolution of the Munsters’

Publisher is testing whether a tweet from an author can directly trigger a sale

To mark Library Ireland Week ‘The Irish Times’ surveyed the country’s libraries

Minister and ambassadors attend first World War commemoration in Glasnevin

Experts discuss the YA fiction scene – the ‘John Green effect’, the ‘Katniss effect’ and unhappy endings

We mark the centenary of Ireland’s forgotten bestselling author of 280 books, pioneer of girls’ school fiction and crime stories

Bestselling writers have taken the giant online bookseller to task for its tactics

John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars has sold more than 10 million copies, but why is it so popular? Four teenage girls explain the appeal

‘As long as people have eyes there will always be a publishing industry. Don’t believe all the scaremongering that modern technology is taking over’

Higgins draws inspiration from women of 1916 as he prepares for state visit to Britain

Memorial will commemorate 232 who died in 1916 Rising

Cancer books suck, John Green writes in ‘The Fault in Our Stars’, but this one has made him a literary phenomenon