John Montague

Claddagh records relaunched after deal with Universal Music Ireland

Label founded by Garech Browne in 1959 to remaster and digitise archive

Black and white issue – Frank McNally on badgers, balcony scenes, and onomastic recycling

An Irishman’s Diary

Irish painter’s estate includes unpublished Heaney poem

Cambridge University pays ‘six-figure sum’ for material belonging to late Barrie Cooke

Richard Weber: An acclaimed Irish poet who suddenly went silent

Obituary: The Dublin man was predicted to be ‘one of the significant poets of his generation’

Rings bring Claddagh Records story full circle

Claddagh rings from Garech Browne’s collection feature in a forthcoming Sotheby’s sale. Jane Bolton who helped Browne set up Claddagh Records is still running the Temple Bar shop today

This Valentine’s Day show your love with these vintage tokens

Gifts with meaning, history and thought are an alternative to flowers and chocolates

Talk about it: Art and architecture talks in Dublin and Cork

From Augustus Pugin to French postcards, a guide to lectures taking place this autumn

Nice’s new normal: Feeling its way back after 2016 attack

Lara Marlowe reports from the Promenade des Anglais, now possibly the world’s safest seafront

The deepest of human longing: A crucible of reason strengthens faith

Notre Dame-Newman Centre project aims to honour legacy of inquiry

My Leaving: Sweating over which poet will turn up

I loved ‘King Lear’, and I can only hope I’ve given the examiners what they’re looking for

Leaving Cert English paper 2: Relief as predicted poets appear

No unpleasant surprises in an exam which asserts the importance of literature

Michael Jackson at Lugalla: He asked for ‘the portrait of the freaky-looking man with the frizzy hair’ to be taken down

Portrait-painter Anthony Palliser on his friendship with Garech Browne, halcyon days at Luggala and his famous Irish subjects

Exhibit A – An Irishwoman’s Diary on the Ballydehob Museum of Treasures

‘One solace I have had over the past terrible year is the knowledge that John was – and is – deeply loved’

Few could touch the quick of things as John Montague did in his verses