Ian Duhig’s parents emigrated to England in the 1950s in search of a better life. In this essay, he looks at growing up under the influence of Ireland and never feeling quite at home

Can’t afford a Grand Canal palazzo? You could still lease a plot on the ‘isle of the dead’

Most artists subsist on extremely low incomes, usually dependent on several sources

The Nobel laureate was funny, explosively opinionated, playful and occasionally outrageous

Coping: Nobel prize winner Joseph Brodsky has some advice for avoiding self-pity

If the academy wanted to honour a music icon, Paul Simon would be a better choice

A strong show by the KCat collective is refreshingly free of irony and knowingness

Andrei Makine’s fiction conveys a mood closely linked with his dislocation

Although the writer’s literary experiments were utterly modern, they were haunted by ghosts, shadows and Irish legends

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Peadar King’s love of Inishbofin is clear from the weekend’s schedule of stimulating events

Moving to the west of Ireland was meant to be a temporary stay for the writer, artist and cartographer. But, four decades later, he remains in Connemara, although his mind is setting sail for elsewhere

This fifth volume of work covers Russia, Yugoslavia, Kilkenny and Irish religion

Walcott’s range went from Marley to Pryor and from Gauguin to Yeats

Loss of this poet will be felt throughout Ireland and far beyond