Ceremony in Inniskeen celebrates ‘Stony Grey Soil’ poet 50 years after his death

Patrick Pye, a religious artist who has fading sight, deemed ineligible for stipend

Author writes six-page letter to Arts Council describing proposals as ‘oddly North Korean’

Alan McMonagle’s enthralling debut follows an Irish teenager trying to imagine a better life

The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be

Corcadorca’s latest production, ‘Sacrifice at Easter’, is set in Cork’s 17th-century Elizabeth Fort and the play is as much about the site as the script

Roddy Doyle’s novel about a 10-year-old whose parents’ marriage is falling apart reveals the dark secret that the writer had been a literary novelist all along

The former teacher’s dark masterpiece gives a disconcerting but compelling voice to the mistreated children who were Ireland’s darkest secret

To mark the publication of Dermot Healy’s Collected Short Stories and Fighting with Shadows, the editors, Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper, offer reflections on a writer’s writer

The nature of last Sunday’s match made it Mayo’s story but what about the Dublin fans?

Garda asks Ceann Comhairle to remove his name after accusation

Aosdána told cut in funding an illustration of the arts’ ‘peripheral’ place in Irish society

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

This week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut author

Five Go on a Treasure Hunt: We gave five treasure hunters €100 each and sent them off to flea markets and car-boot sales to seek bargains. So how much would the five items fetch at auction? The news is not good

An Irishman’s Diary on the dark secret of a Clones street

Its days are numbered unless the GAA issues a reprieve – I’m all for the whales. But let’s save Clones too

Cartographer Garrett Carr has drawn maps of the Border that ignore political divisions and instead chart how people in the region interact with the landscape

From Jane Eyre’s madwoman in the attic to Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and Francie in The Butcher Boy, madness is a recurring and compelling theme in literature

An Irishman’s Diary about a strange afternoon in Clones

After a huge response to our feature on great opening lines, we’ve assembled our favourite openers posted by readers

Her struggle, sacrifice, passion and bravery shine through her autobiography

Judge rejects claim businessman’s ‘poor literacy’ should delay IBRC’s case

Nigella’s battles moved to the kitchen, in ‘The Taste’, while infidelity between commuters made for charming drama in ‘The 7.39’

Genevieve Hulme-Beaman delivers a stand-out performance as a terrifying lady-in-waiting

Martin Callinan admits abuse victims did not receive ‘appropriate attention’

In 1988 Dublin’s bishops ‘set him loose on the unsuspecting population of Stockton, California’

Analysis: amoral institutions protected before the welfare of children

Chapter 20 of Murphy report published this afternoon

Family-run McCabes Garages had been Toyota dealer for 37 years

City of Bohane, thriller set in a futuristic west of Ireland, takes €100,000 prize

Victims tell court how Patrick McCabe (77) left them ‘tortured, tormented and haunted’