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The late Liam Ó Muirthile in Dún Laoghaire, 2007. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Two poems in memory of Liam Ó Muirthile
  • Greg Delanty and Alannah Hopkin

Tombstone by Greg Delanty and A Gentleman Caller by Alannah Hopkin

Hydrangeas in bloom, Beauport Abbey, Brittany, France. Poem of the week: Southside Shrub
  • Maeve O’Sullivan

A new work by Maeve O’Sullivan

Galway poet Rita Ann Higgins at Spiddal. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy Poem of the week: Scullery
  • Rita Ann Higgins

A new work by Rita Ann Higgins

The steeple of Notre Dame collapses as smoke and flames engulf the cathedral in Paris, France. Photograph: Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt/AFP/Getty Images Notre-Dame: Two poems celebrating the cathedral
  • Catherine Phil MacCarthy and Mary O'Malley

'A Sonnet for Paris' by Mary O’Malley; 'The Bells of Notre-Dame' by Catherine Phil MacCarthy

Poet Harry Clifton. Photograph: Alan Betson/The Irish Times Poem of the Week: Ruins
  • Harry Clifton

A work by Harry Clifton

Justin Quinn. Photograph: Tereza Limanova Poem of the week: Island Sonnet
  • Justin Quinn

A new work by Justin Quinn

Miami Showband Brian Maguire, Road Manager, with Des Lee, Sax Player and Ray Miller, Drummer, of the origional Miami Shgowband, at a wreath-laying ceremony organised by Justice for the Forgotten, at Parnell square, Dublin. Photograph: Eric Luke Poem of the week: Referendum
  • Sean O’Brien

A new poem by Sean O’Brien

Colette Colfer. Photograph: Dave Manser/Vitamin Creative New Irish Writing: March 2019’s winning poems
  • Colette Colfer and Lynn Caldwell

Black Madonna and At Sea by Colette Colfer; Universe Inside and Geography of the Afterlife by Lynn Caldwell

Poet Patrick Cotter is pictured at a ceremony in UCC in 2013. Photograph: Denis Minihane Poem of the week: The Shrew
  • Patrick Cotter

A new work by Patrick Cotter

Thomas Dillon Redshaw: Theft is from his collection Mortal Poems of the week: Sylvia’s Books and Theft
  • Mary Noonan and Thomas Dillon Redshaw

New work by Mary Noonan and Thomas Dillon Redshaw

Patrick Deeley. Photograph: Judy Carroll Deeley/Dedalus Press The Saturday poem: The Wedge
  • Patrick Deeley

A new work by Patrick Deeley

Paddy Bushe The Saturday poem: Sky Woman
  • Paddy Bushe

A new poem by Paddy Bushe

Matt Hohner: chosen by poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin as the winner of the Doolin poetry competition, part of Doolin Writers’ Weekend Poem about Tree of Life synagogue massacre wins Doolin poetry prize
  • Matt Hohner

Poem about masculine vulnerability wins Doolin poetry video competition

Mark Ward Hennessy New Irish Writing: February 2019’s winning poems

Mobile Library by Mark Ward; Tangerine in December by Derek Coyle; Fists by Steve Denehan

Eamon Grennan. Photograph: Ben Fink Shapiro Poem of the week: Anniversary Mother
  • Eamon Grennan

A new poem by Eamon Grennan

Vona Groarke. Photograph: Ed Swinden/The Gallery Press Poem of the week: Against Loneliness
  • Vona Groarke

A new work by Vona Groarke

Irish Free State troops guarding a road on the Fermanagh-Cavan border in 1922. Photograph: Getty Images ‘Top-hatted Rees-Mogg and Bullingdon Club Johnson, calling Ireland to heel’
  • Timothy O'Grady

A reflection on borders in verse by Tim O'Grady

Mark Granier Poem of the week: 20/1/18
  • Mark Granier

A new poem by Mark Granier

Pearse Hutchinson Poem of the week: Portobello Bridge Revisited
  • Enda Wyley

A new poem by Enda Wyley in memory of Pearse Hutchinson, 1927-2012

Parts of an Airfix model aircraft kit of a Hawker Hunter bomber. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images/File Poem of the week: Airfixit
  • Iggy McGovern

A new poem by Iggy McGovern

Amy Gaffney Hennessy New Irish Writing: January 2019’s winning poems
  • Amy Gaffney and Majella Kelly

Tonsillitis by Amy Gaffney and Blue by Majella Kelly

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Seamus Mallon in 1998, when he was deputy first minister of Northern Ireland. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien Seamus Mallon: Tony Blair said to me, ‘The trouble with you fellows is you have no guns’
Nothing to sing about?: 10-year-old Mona Abdulmagid (foreground of montage) takes part in the the Ireland Palestine Alliance’s boycott-Eurovision campaign. Last year’s winner was the Israeli singer Netta Barzilai (background) Fintan O’Toole: Everything about Israel is political, even Eurovision
David Puttnam at home in Skibereen, Co Cork. Photograph: Michael Mac Sweeney/Provision David Puttnam: ‘I feel no sense of identity for the country I grew up in’
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Lisa Harding: “handles a profoundly difficult issue with absolute care and multitudes of heart”
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Short stories

Illustration: Brendon Deacy Deus Absconditus, a short story by Mary Costello
The agency that arranges for holy shows like me to hide out with a pious family until the baby has been quietly born and adopted by another Catholic family gave me a choice of available hosts: a farming family in Cavan or an Irish-American family in Connecticut Transatlantic Railroad, a short story by Mary M Burke
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Book reviews

Fr Tony Coote: has written a book about what it means to live gracefully, to live with faith and to appreciate every day, no matter what life throws at you. Photograph: Dave Meehan Live While You Can by Fr Tony Coote: eloquent and painfully insightful
Salvador Mundi: a half-figure portrait of Christ painted on a walnut wood panel The Last Leonardo review: Making an argument for value of art
Andrews grew up in Sunderland and has been published by the Independent, Somesuch Stories, AnOther, Caught by the River, Shabby Doll House and Papaya Press Saltwater review: A coming-of-age novel and a fluid and crisp love note to a mother
Greene exposes the reader to most people’s worst fear – the death of a child – in a manner that is sufficiently analytical to be intellectually beneficial, but honest enough to flay you raw Once More We Saw Stars review: painfully intimate truths of grief laid bare
The men who commit public atrocities have very probably practised their terrorism at home first. Photos of the two brothers responsible for the bloody massacre at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris in 2015. Photograph: French Police/AFP/Getty Images Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men Into Terrorists review – powerful but shocking

New poetry

The late Liam Ó Muirthile in Dún Laoghaire, 2007. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Two poems in memory of Liam Ó Muirthile
Hydrangeas in bloom, Beauport Abbey, Brittany, France. Poem of the week: Southside Shrub
Galway poet Rita Ann Higgins at Spiddal. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy Poem of the week: Scullery

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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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