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Walt Whitman
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Donald Clarke: The B&B paperback is dead
Up to the 1980s, every Irish B&B had bookshelves stuffed with books left by guests
Ruth Fitzmaurice: A man handed me a coin at the trolley bay. His small kindness moved me to tears
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Keith Duggan: How we could all do with a dose of that Italia 90 feeling just now
30 years ago it seemed like the whole of Ireland burst out on to the streets at the same time
Rip Torn, Men in Black and Larry Sanders Show star, dies aged 88
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Walt’s Partner – a Limerick man beloved of Walt Whitman
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The miracle of lilac: long-living, sweet-smelling and very easy to grow
Grow them as a shrub or small tree in a lawn, an informal hedge, or even trained against a high wall where their foliage will act as a foil for flowering plants
Mary Oliver, prize-winning poet, dies at 83
Her work, with its plain language, drew a wide following but divided critics
Wellington Rd townhouse with links to Wilde, Yeats
The ghosts of Oscar Wilde and WB Yeats may well still be enjoying this elegant 286sq m property seeking €2.95m
Bob Dylan could tackle changing times in Nobel speech
This weekend, the literary giant will be celebrated at the Nobel prize-giving ceremony. He harnesses the power of language like nobody else
Liam Toland: Joe Schmidt’s men can stop the All Blacks in their tracks
Ireland have culture, coaches and players to make history by finally beating New Zealand
Celebration of Irish composers neglects women and living composers under 30
Composing the Island festival is huge, but it neglects women and living composers under 30
Charlotte Wood interview: The girls they punished for saying too much
The greatest shock of the Australian writer’s new novel about a misogynistic dystopia is that it is based on a real girls’ home from the 1970s
What is poetry? Three masters look for answers
Beekeeping, Belfast and Buddhism: books of lectures by Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Michael Longley cast the net wide
Culture Shock: Would you pay $100 for 25 Snapchats?
Is selling Alec Soth’s ‘intangible’ photographs a cynical ploy to feed the First World’s need to need, or does it reveal something about the parts of us that only art can reach?
The magnificant seven treasures of Japanese cloisonné
The golden age of this ancient enamelling technique is given an exceptional showcase
The Loafing Heroes: raggle-taggle songs about Casement and Kierkegaard
The band want to bring back the fine art of loafing, along with a few more serious concerns
Alain de Botton and Douglas Coupland: 21st-century industrial espionage
Alain de Botton explains the thinking that prompted him to marshal leading writers into closed organisations
Word for Word: Let the ears of your ears awake
Hearing a Philip Larkin poem on his car radio caused Roger McGough to pull in and weep uncontrollably
Word for Word: Poetry’s inspirational ubiquity
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
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