Brought to book: Alison Healy on some unwise rejections of authors’ manuscripts by publishers
An American publisher dismissed them as unfunny, senseless and dull
WB Yeats
Inhabit the Poem - Last Essays by Helen Vendler: A career of single-minded poetic devotion
The 20th century’s greatest poetry critic looks at the greatest of these poets and chooses WB Yeats
The Irish Revolution: How the diaspora helped make independence an international affair
New collection of essays dwells comprehensively on role of Irish overseas during revolutionary period
The 1920s London Irish Theatre: Abbey’s difficulty was England’s opportunity
Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel’s history shows extent to which Irish drama was important in London
Playwright Seán O’Casey’s daughter: ‘He never seemed old to me... he was quite adventurous’
Seán O’Casey’s daughter Shivaun, a living link to one of our most famous playwrights, has written a memoir that includes previously unpublished letters from her father
‘He never said that’: Frank McNally is tired of hearing a phantom WB Yeats quote
It was a week of oral exams as the art of storytelling excelled at parties and awards ceremonies
Monumental misstep: Frank McNally on the ‘tragedy’ of a great Irish sculptor, John Hughes
What should have been the peak of the sculptor’s career was doomed to coincide with what the Chinese call interesting times
Enoch Burke’s ferocious desire for martyrdom has roots in Irish life
Catholic anti-divorce crusaders deliberately made outrageous analogies and used modern tactics, too
Derek Mahon: A True Note – an anniversary appreciation by John Banville
The Belfast-born poet, who died five years ago, left us a precious legacy of transcendent beauty, vigour, wit and profundity
Here it was again, the phantom Yeats quote in an Irish pub in Perpignan
This same legend turned up on the Dublin City Marathon medal two years ago
Ireland’s county towns: ‘There were 300 people living on this street. Now it’s 17’
In the second in her series on county towns, Rosita Boland discovers there is a lot more to Sligo than its Yeats connection
The Yeats sisters: ‘The untold stories of these fantastic Irish women’
Musician and art historian Lyndsey McDougall on her muse Lily Yeats, and the unexpected convergence of religion and rock’n’roll
Story of a Song review: How Spandau Ballet’s Through the Barricades emerged from the Troubles
Television: Engaging Aistear an Amhráin series is the sort of show RTÉ needs to make more of
‘Yeats was the mage, but AE was the sage’: Why George William Russell deserves to be a household name again
A luminous centre of the Irish literary renaissance, a figure of world importance
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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