Ithell Colquhoun: The forgotten ‘Celtic fringe’ surrealist who could be art’s next big star
Born in India, then sent home to England as a baby, the artist developed an affinity with the ‘Celtic fringe’ and the sexual preoccupations of WB Yeats
WB Yeats
Delicate task of returning lantern that lit Yeats’s way up ‘the winding stair’ from the US to its Galway home
A stained glass lantern owned by WB Yeats which wound its way across the Atlantic has been lovingly brought back to Ireland after almost 100 years
Papers handed to Irish ambassador cast doubt on whether Yeats’s remains were correctly identified
Nephew of painter Hannah Gluckstein, a member of poet’s late circle, approached embassy with information in 1978
It’s time Dublin had a statue to unconventional, complex Maud Gonne MacBride
Attitudes to her have been reductive, shaped by the mores of the time and her failed marriage
One Leg One Eye review: Forget Fairytale of New York. This is a soundtrack of the real Irish Christmas
Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise
Ralph Fiennes at the Abbey Theatre: An electrifying, moving reading of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets
The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024
Fintan O’Toole on his career: ‘You had to learn to live with the fact that some people despised you’
The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex
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
Sligo hotel with sea views for €7m
Four-star 98 bed Yeats Country Hotel is in picturesque village of Rosses Point
A New York Times book critic spent five days in Dublin. Here’s how he got on
The city is a soulful playground for the kind of people who have spectacles on their nose and autumn in their hearts
A History of Irish Magic: Occultism of national life explored
Sally and James North suggest the Druidic tradition and Brehon Law enshrined magic in Gaelic culture and injected public affairs with mysticism
Francis Bacon’s Nanny: A peek into the darkness of the artist’s childhood
Maylis Besserie’s novel lays bare the cruelty of Bacon’s father as seen through the eyes of the family’s domestic servant Jessie Lightfoot
I wanted to write a book about Irish women’s writing. They told me to include men
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
Distinctively Irish, creatively modern: Roy Foster on Sarah Purser, the most successful portrait painter of her day
The artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspire
Distinctively Irish, creatively modern: Roy Foster on Sarah Purser, the most successful portrait painter of her day
The artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspire
TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this week
March 3rd-8th: From royal drama Mary & George to Imelda May on WB Yeats’s forgotten sisters
History suggests Mary Lou McDonald’s comments on unity are wildly exaggerated
Those on both sides of the unity argument need to find answers that go beyond sloganeering
Voluntary contributions to the arts
A rich legacy and a vital part of the story of the arts in Ireland
A man of many parts - Ray Burke on Edward Martyn
The playwright and landowner died this month 100 years ago but his legacy lives on in a veritable treasure house of the Celtic Revival in Loughrea’s cathedral
WB Yeats’s Nobel banquet: The food they ate, the wine they drank, and what it said about Ireland
The Stephen’s Green Club, in Dublin, honoured the poet with a celebratory dinner. The programme is a portal to a transformative period of Irish history
Pilgrim Soul: Readable portrayal of the enigma of WB Yeats
Daniel Mulhall covers the main elements of the poet’s life from his fascination with the occult to his relationship with fascism and eugenics
Ireland saw ‘bad books’ and ‘immodest fashion’ everywhere, but was blind to homegrown hells
One of the great ironies of the censorship crusade was that so much “evil” under Irish noses was ignored
Roy Foster: Irish reunification ‘is nearer than I would have thought it a couple of decades ago’
The historian discusses an array of subjects, including the damage wrought by Brexit, comparing WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and why ‘the whole revisionism thing is over’
To err is human. Or it used to be, before we outsourced the job to tech
The Dublin Marathon medal howlers raise the question of what is going on in a culture supposedly more educated than ever before
‘It would appear now that some people do appreciate my work’: What WB Yeats told The Irish Times in 1923 about his Nobel win
One hundred years ago this week, The Irish Times was first to tell the poet he was set to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. We then published this series of articles
‘Europe’s welcome to the Free State’: The story of WB Yeats’s Nobel victory
Yeats did not know that 1923, the year of his Nobel prize, did not mark his first nomination but his seventh
Nobel Prize in Literature 2023: Norwegian author Jon Fosse wins
The author wins greatest prize in world literature ‘for his innovative plays and prose, which give voice to the unsayable’
When the Moon Spun Round: Fidget Feet turn Yeats’s poems for children into a stage show
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The poems are the jumping-off point for a fast-moving aerial dance show in collaboration with Ceol Connected
It’s not Yeats on the Dublin Marathon medal. It’s Marge Simpson. And you can quote me on that
I disapprove of erroneously attributed quotations, but I will defend to the death your right to erroneously attribute them, as Voltaire definitely said
Dublin Marathon to present runners with medals featuring unsubstantiated Yeats quotation
Organisers concede there is lack of evidence that phrase actually came from poet
Justine McCarthy: We should thank Charles Haughey for Ireland’s Booker Prize success
To explore the success of Irish artists without mentioning Haughey is like staging Hamlet without the prince
‘The music industry wanted a Dublin Edith Piaf. They got Sinéad O’Connor instead’
People advised her to ‘just shut up and sing’. But there was no separating the singer from the song
New to auction: From rare Celtic Revival books to a Fabergé frog and an orange-faced Rolex
De Búrca Rare Books has treasures for sale on the secondary market, including books by Yeats once owned by the poet Siegfried Sassoon and the actor John Mills
Not just a sister act - Frank McNally on the neglected Yeats sisters, and their even more neglected collaborator
Evelyn Gleeson - a woman without whom the siblings might never have become the powerhouses they were
The story about WB Yeats’ bones being sought from a French ossuary inspires French writer
An Irish Times article on the controversy over the poet’s remains provided the creative spark for young French radio journalist Maylis Besserie
Scattered Love by Maylis Besserie: Finding beginnings in endings
Translated by Clíona Ní Ríordáin, the French author’s new novel concerns the endgame of WB Yeats
Moments of glad grace: China checks out Irish artists inspired by WB Yeats
More than 100 artists have contributed small paintings to an exhibition that is touring a country where the poet exerted much influence
First Look: National Library of Ireland’s new director leads her first monthly tour of its historic Dublin home
Dr Audrey Whitty wants to ‘showcase our beautiful building, introduce our national collections and meet visitors face to face’
Rufus Wainwright: ‘I asked Paul Brady to sing Arthur McBride three times one evening’
The singer-songwriter has gone back to his family folk roots via his new album, Folkocracy, and found it’s not such an uncomfortable place to be
1923 in 23 objects: Turbines, petrol pumps and a triumph at dinnertime
In what was a heady year we also got the first Irish stamp, a customs border and WB Yeats’s Nobel medal
What happened in 1923? From Civil War to nation building
A timline of events from the end of the War of Independence to WB Yeats winning the Nobel prize
Neglected reputations: The forgotten Yeats sisters, Lily and Elizabeth
Somewhat overshadowed by brothers WB and Jack, the sisters were a key part of the Celtic Revival and powerhouses behind Dun Emer and Cuala, creative outlets for female writers and artists
‘You have a very strong accent’: Miriam Margolyes hits peak Brit Abroad mode with Lynn Ruane
In Lady Gregory: Ireland’s First Social Influencer the unlikely pair have a merry time traversing Ireland to unpick the Abbey cofounder’s life
St Patrick’s Day in Japan: Irish exiles seek out the perfect pub-poured pint
Ciarán Lawler finds himself in a Tokyo bookshop reading Peppa Pig Goes to Ireland
Palliative care is a new journey for me
In the coming months and, with a bit of luck, years I will get visits from experts at home
Denis Donoghue obituary: One of the world’s foremost scholars of modern literature
One student recalled ‘it was easy to mistake his grand, rolling cadences for the voice of God’
A hazelnut pudding reminiscent of an ancient Irish feast
JP McMahon: The hazel tree occupies an important part of our mythology
A Winged Victory for the Sullen: ‘There is anxiety all over the world’
Dustin O’Halloran, Adam Wiltzie talk about their music, life and death, and staging their biggest tour yet
10 great hotels around Ireland for a Christmas away from it all
Gift yourself a stress-free Christmas with these luxurious places to stay
‘I believed it’: John Banville was told he won 2019 Nobel Prize in hoax call
Author says he was phoned by Swedish Academy number shortly before announcement
Woman power is the key to this Carlow castle’s rich history
Huntington Castle has a storied female past, with links back to Ireland’s pirate queen
Church of Ireland marks 150 years since end of role as state church
A unique institution continues to accommodate those people of divergent political views
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