The show must go online: Irish festivals respond to Covid-19

The Irish Arts Festivals Archive aims is recording festivals’ response to coronavirus

Leaving Cert English paper 2: Relief as predicted poets appear

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

Literary greats gather in Galway city for literature festival

Laureate for Irish Fiction Sebastian Barry and author Paul Lynch among participants

Walk for the weekend: Strolling by the Suir

Enjoy the historical sites and natural beauty from Carrick-on-Suir to Kilsheelan

Honour Famine victims by aiding ‘modern equivalents’ - Varadkar

Taoiseach speaks at National Famine Commemoration at Ballingarry, Co Tipperary

Late photographer Walter Pfeiffer’s last collection is published

Artistic interpretation of archaeological dig on Inishlyon also on Clifden festival programme

Death of ‘sex as sin’ brought confession era to an end - priest

Remarks counter clergy at Galway novena who suggested practice making a comeback

Monkstown church designed by noted architect marks its 150th year

St Patrick’s is part of Dublin parish formed a week before Catholic Emancipation in 1829

Cúirt; Fish Short Story winners; Gavin Corbett at TCD; Cork World Book Fest

Dublin Shakespeare Society; Kevin Curran reading; All-Ireland Poetry Day; Trinity talk on Derry authors; hunger strike talk at UCD

The L factor: a literary ambassador for Ireland

Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction

Flying cows, spiralling elves and spicy feet among Baboró festival events in Galway

Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published

How Beautiful the Feet

Poet laid to rest under shadow of sycamore trees

Priest says Bellaghy honoured that Heaney had chosen to be interred in his home town