Lisa O’Neill at the Gate: Story-telling artist has never sounded better
Legacy and history weave through this singular performance, which resonates long after it ends
Patrick Kavanagh
Killarney then and now: Aspects recognisable from when Harry Kernoff painted them in 1943
Some of the views Irish artist Harry Aaron Kernoff painted of Killarney while on a cycling trip with Patrick Kavanagh haven’t changed much in more than 70 years
David Marcus, The Irish Times and a golden age of literary journalism
Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents
Field Outing – Frank McNally on an impromptu trip to the National Ploughing Championships
It was a jaunt reminiscent of the inaugural Bloomsday, albeit with more speed and less alcohol
Mouthing by Orla Mackey: An engrossing and adept work of fiction about a rural Irish community like any other
In her debut novel, Mackey keeps moving the goalposts in delightfully wicked fashion for readers to catch up
The Kafkaesque charade on Dublin’s Grand Canal is not ‘common sense’. It is common stupidity
In preventing homeless people from finding a place of temporary shelter, the authorities have wrecked a particularly lovely public space
Author Andrew Hughes on his new novel, writing the mind of a teenager and Killua Castle
Hughes’s new book, Emma, Disappeared, follows James Lyster, whose life begins to unravel after the disappearance of a high-achieving university graduate
Writer Maggie Armstrong: ‘I wanted to be a wastrel. I had no ambitions ever, for anything. Is that a symptom of the age?’
Maggie Armstrong, a former journalist, was always a ‘bit envious’ of the people she interviewed. She reflects on her decision to take her writing seriously
All That Glit – Frank McNally on the ancient origins of a slippery word
Patrick Kavanagh may not have used the word in his poetry, but Seamus Heaney did
The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end
The best movies, music, art and more coming your way September 23rd-29th
Tower of Song – Frank McNally on the Joycenights Festival, rude hand gestures, and improving Patrick Kavanagh
I somehow found a free corner (not easy in a round tower) among the capacity attendance
Ghosts of Baggotonia: Homage to a lost Dublin, never to return
Television: As an outsider who associates Baggot Street with rugby fans, traffic jams and office workers, it is a revelation
Dublin Marathon misattributing a quote to Yeats makes a mockery of him and his Nobel Prize
Presenting runners with a tribute to Yeats featuring a line he almost certainly never said is an embarrassing travesty for a city that prides itself on its literary heritage
Patrick Kavanagh’s death mask and the skull of a giant Irish deer at upcoming sale
De Burca’s Rare Books latest catalogue features two first editions of James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses
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