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The Artane Boy’s Band in action at Croke Park. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The Saturday poem: The Artane Band
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A new work by Jessica Traynor

Patrick Cotter The Saturday Poem: For the Love of Audience Development
  • Patrick Cotter

A new work by Patrick Cotter

The Saturday Poem: Stalled Train, by Pat Boran
  • Pat Boran

The Saturday Poem: To the Castle, by Rory Brennan
  • Rory Brennan

James Conor Patterson Hennessy New Irish Writing: August 2017’s joint winning poems
  • James Patterson

The Disappeared and Sand Mandala by James Conor Patterson

Majella Kelly Hennessy New Irish Writing: August 2017’s winning poems
  • Majella Kelly

Lichenology and Funeral by Majella Kelly

The Saturday Poem: Expensive Sweetheart
  • Tara Bergin

The Saturday Poem – Tube
  • Mark Granier

Matthew Sweeney The Saturday Poem: Lisdoonvarna by Matthew Sweeney
  • Matthew Sweeney

The Saturday Poem: Kingdom of the Dead
  • Greg Delanty

A poem by Greg Delanty

Irish poet and soldier Francis Ledwidge (1891 - 1917). He served as a lance-corporal on the Flanders front with the Royal Enniskillen Fusiliers. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images The Saturday Poem: Ledwidge
  • Michael Longley

A poem by Michael Longley

Hennessy New Irish Writing: July 2017’s winning poems
  • Chris Connolly

Particulars of Bovine Husbandry; Old-age Sensibility; and The House, by Chris Connolly

Amanda Bell at the Marsh’s Library, St Patrick’s Close, Wood Quay. Photograph: Alan Betson The Saturday Poem: Points
  • Amanda Bell

A new poem by Amanda Bell

The Summer of Love The Saturday Poem: A New Shirt
  • David Cooke

Top of the Pops. Photograph: Phil Dent/Redferns The Saturday Poem: Top of the Pops
  • Ciaran Berry

A new poem by Ciaran Berry

Climate change: President Trump signs an executive order intended to roll back most of President Obama’s climate-change legacy. Photograph: Stephen Crowley/New York Times The Saturday Poem: On the Fifth Day
  • Jane Hirshfield

By Jane Hirshfield, for the March for Science, on Earth Day 2017

Eoin Devereux The Bodhi Tree: a poem by Eoin Devereux
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Grenfell Tower seen from a neighbouring tower block in Kensington, London. A police spokesman said some of the remains may never be identified. Photograph: Carl Court/Getty Images Poem of the week: Naming of the Bones
  • John F Deane

A poem by John F Deane inspired by the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London

Hennesy New Irish Writing winning poems: June 2017
  • Kevin Graham

‘Here’ and ‘The Scan’, two poems by Kevin Graham

The Hook and the Needle
  • Sinead Morrissey

A new poem by Sinéad Morrissey

Sgt Pepper at 50: John Lennon and Ringo Starr, from the exhibition Unseen Beatles, featuring photographs by Frank Herrmann. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Poem of the Week: The Hook and the Needle
  • Sinéad Morrissey

As part of Liverpool Presents Sgt Pepper at 50, a new Beatles poem by Sinéad Morrissey

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Short stories

“They drive up to the same spot and the same man gets out of the first truck. Instead of getting to work, he walks towards the trailer.” Lipstick, a short story by Meghan Helms
Ethel Rohan The Great Blue Open, a short story by Ethel Rohan
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Book reviews

National Army troops at Ordnance Barracks, Mulgrave Street, Limerick, 1922. Photograph: Courtesy of the National Library of Ireland Atlas of the Irish Revolution is mammoth and magnificent
Paddy McAloon and Wendy Smith of Prefab Sprout photographed backstage in the mid 1980’s. (Photo by Anthony Cake/Photoshot/Getty Images) A book tailor-made for the Prefab Sprout fanatic
Claire Tomalin: The theme of women artists coping with adversity runs throughout ‘A Life of My Own’ A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin: a fascinating and startling read
The Woodberry Down Health Centre in Stoke Newington, London, opens for treatment. Woodberry Down was the first fully comprehensive health centre to be built under the National Health Service Act. Photograph: L Blandford/Getty Images How the fight against ‘poverty and squalidness’ created the welfare state
Lux Langley, the teenage protagonist of The Taste of Blue Light, who thinks, feels and even dreams in colour The Taste of Blue Light: An original take on trauma and memory loss

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New poetry

The Artane Boy’s Band in action at Croke Park. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien The Saturday poem: The Artane Band
Patrick Cotter The Saturday Poem: For the Love of Audience Development
The Saturday Poem: Stalled Train, by Pat Boran

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Kate Hamer: I find Edna O’Brien an absolutely extraordinary writer – her work is so lucid and accomplished it’s almost like she’s recasting a vision. Photograph: Mei Williams Kate Hamer Q&A: ‘Write the story that is burning inside you’
Shelved: a selection of books by Irish women writers. Might some of these names figure in the final 12?
Women writers Putting Irish women writers back in the picture
 
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