Vortex wins best film at Dublin International Film Festival
Laura Samani wins best director for Small Body and Udo Kier takes best actor
From Mozart to Britten, the requiem will live forever
Composers have always been drawn to honour the dead with powerful, passionate music
Last poet and chorus: Wilfred Owen's cruelly-timed death, 100 years ago
An Irishman’s Diary: WB Yeats was notoriously unimpressed by Owen’s poetry
Talking won’t always help war-trauma victims. But dance might
Tom Clonan joins a cast of dancers who are finding new ways to describe the brutality of war
Fintan O’Toole: Trump’s Syria intervention is for the wrong reasons
US strikes are a result of the president’s belief that the world must be shaped by his moods
Irish poets in time of war: the battle to be heard
Gerald Dawe discusses some of the background to his new book, Of War and War’s Alarms: Reflections on Modern Irish Writing
Delayed honour: the Irish war poets
The politics they returned to meant it is only in recent years that the stories of the Irish men and women who died – and wrote – in the Great War have been heard
Reclaiming the war: Army of ghosts
War writing at heart is about the ambivalence of loyalty to class, nation, and friends, and of belief and the business of being human, and more recent Irish writing on the Great War, in reopening a closed chapter in our history, is no different in exploring all those ambiguities
Mary McAleese: The Christmas truce
‘The memory of that Christmas truce is so important on this island at this time’
Putting war into words
Shortlisted this week for the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, Audrey Magee’s ‘The Undertaking’ has the second World War as its backdrop. Here’s a selection of our favourite literary quotations on war
The Great War, by Peter Hart
A new military history of the first World War not only makes the conflict more intelligible but turns it into a gripping narrative
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