Brendan Kennelly obituary: Gifted poet, academic and storyteller
A writer who grew up in a pub, Kennelly learned how to tell a story and hold an audience
20 years on: How The Irish Times covered the events of September 11th, 2001
Newspaper’s US correspondent was an eyewitness to the full horrors of 9/11
How The Irish Times reviewed ‘an impressive young Ulster poet’ named Seamus Heaney in 1966
Michael Longley’s review of Death of a Naturalist was not entirely uncritical
‘Ulysses was a large stomachful.’ How The Irish Times reviewed James Joyce in the 1920s
Our original review of Finnegans Wake said the book was ‘exciting in its impenetrability’
State to purchase a number of items from Yeats Family Collection
The Minister for Arts has provided funding to the National Museum of Ireland and the National Library of Ireland to buy a number of the items
In praise of Jennifer Johnston
Irish Times Blook Club: Novelist has chronicled the family across a century of troubled Irish history
Dutch buyer purchases LÉ ‘Aisling’ ship for €110,000
Former Naval Service vessel involved in response to Air India disaster in 1985
Fancy owning a naval ship? 'LÉ Aisling' to be auctioned
Ship was involved in some of the most dramatic events in Irish Naval history
History of LÉ Aisling recalled as patrol ship decommissioned
Ship aided Air India recovery and capture of IRA gun-runner over 36 years of service
Voices on Joyce: A showcase of Irish takes on James Joyce
The variety in this richly satisfying book is evident when we note how the insights of philosophy, musicology, and literary history and criticism are germane to Joyce studies
The end of Yeats: work and women in his last days in France
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
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