It may be a function of growing older – but as time goes by death does lose its sting

Zainab Boladale, the new co-presenter of ‘News2Day’, is happy to see diversity on TV

As part of today’s celebrations, Lewis Kenny will be writing personalised verse at Poetry Ireland’s HQ

The poet and proto-emo barely deems to step outside her own head in this portrayal

Cynthia Nixon on the legacy of the iconic TV show, playing poet Emily Dickinson in ‘A Quiet Passion’, and why Ireland's Marriage Equality referendum meant so much to her

Mr Tambourine Man is arguably the most pirated pirate in the history of modern music

Marie Daly says they may have their wits about them, but we still do the necessary

Relief as contemporary Irish poet appears but teacher queries range required

Seán Flanagan is delighted and exhausted after two days of writing like a maniac

Poets rather than scientists are best-placed to explain our feelings, says ‘emotional archivist’ Tiffany Watt Smith

My house is full of strangers because my husband has motor neuron disease, but my secret all-year swim club saves me

Nuala O’Connor has found a novel way into the life of the reclusive poet

A great collaboration between composer Mel Mercier and choreographer John Scott

The three times US poet laureate is in residence at the Kilkenny Arts Festival

Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books

Beekeeping, Belfast and Buddhism: books of lectures by Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Michael Longley cast the net wide

New novels from Milan Kundera, Paul Murray and Nuala Ní Chonchúir are among the season's highlights

Brought to Book Q&A: Greek novelist and poet on Emily Dickinson and Robert Mouzil

Richard Rankin Russell’s book explores the poet’s fidelity to his birthplace in Co Derry

In memory of Margaret Maher, housemaid and confidante of Emily Dickinson

Writer shows up Unseen Poetry and not in Prescribed Poetry - as many were expecting

Students thrown by Heaney’s surprise appearance

Writer Nuala Ní Chonchúir has struck a substantial deal in the US and Canada for her third novel about poet Emily Dickinson’s Irish maid. She tells The Irish Times about writing, motherhood and rural Ireland

‘I had to remould my brain to write “The Follow”. It involved three trips to Borneo and years of reading and studying and thinking hard about human beings and our place in the natural world’

Between them the 12 men cover a choral spectrum of about four octaves. How?

Rachel Weisz, star of Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful, talks feminism, witches and Elizabeth Taylor