The Repeal campaign should be challenging political and economic inequalities

Letter to Taoiseach signed by academics and artists urges Government to act ‘without delay’

Dublin-born poet wins €2,000 prize for his collection ‘On A Turning Wing’

Clifden Community Arts Festival donates 40-year ‘sociological record’ of the arts

Dublin Theatre Festival: Irish poems set to music beg the question - why?

A high proportion of composers do not like writing about their work but listeners find such context invaluable

Chris Connolly wins Emerging Fiction prize, Jane Clarke wins Emerging Poetry award and Éilís Ní Dhuibhne inducted into Hennessy Literary Awards Hall of Fame

The Dubliner grew up in the oral tradition of stories and singing – ‘a vivid, interesting and textured world’. However complex her poems may be, they never lose touch with the energy of a shout in the street

A young Chinese poet delighted by the contemporary Irish poetry scene.

Poets find fruitful focus in writing about their domestic pets, says Maureen Kennelly

Novelists, poets and painters state abortion amendment is ‘ongoing cause of shame’

25 poets in special Irish issue of ‘Poetry’ are worthy of international exposure, says Patrick Cotter

Beekeeping, Belfast and Buddhism: books of lectures by Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Michael Longley cast the net wide

Literary works being showcased on system to celebrate WB Yeats’s 150th anniversary

Irish Women Writers: ‘I love her verbal energy and the profound compassion that I find in her work’

The Hennessy Hall of Fame poet looks back on her childhood and the path that led her to ‘stand up for the word’

The countdown is on to find Ireland’s favourite Irish poem, so we’ve asked a selection of writers and readers to tell us their favourite few lines of verse, and to nominate which poem they think is best from RTÉ’s A Poem for Ireland shortlist

Kavanagh, Yeats and Heaney among contenders in A Poem for Ireland project

Passionate, relentlessly energetic and possessing a collegial focus: ahead of the announcement of the inaugural laureate in The Irish Times, the selection panel discuss what they are looking for

Some 85,000 overseas visitors expected to honour life and work of the poet

Michael D Higgins travels to Great Wall during high-profile state visit

Mission will include meetings with top political and business leaders

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

New poetry trail in Letterfrack acknowledges history of former industrial school

Eimear McBride, Jennifer Johnston and Kevin Barry are some of the names that have been suggested in response to the Arts Council’s call for nominees for its new three-year, €150,000 role. The judges will announce their decision in January

Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published

Some poets are so embarrassed to say what they do that they’d rather tell people they work for Revenue

MacGill Summer School and West Cork Literary Festival news

The fearless beauty of his poetry shone out of every aspect of the National Concert Hall celebration

My earliest recollection is of women chattering above my cot. In adolescence, my greatest comfort was the soft, posh voices of female presenters on BBC Radio 3

Whether in a book or on ‘Mad Men’, ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘The Simpsons’, poems change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world

Yeats had a late creative surge – including ‘one of the greatest ever death-bed utterances’ – before he died surrounded by his muses in France 75 years ago

At a grand dinner many years ago, Heaney made a nice gesture in honour of my father, who had recently died

Post forms part of Seamus Heaney’s ‘legacy’, TCD provost says

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

Glaoch: The President’s Call was a classy production