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Richard Weber: An acclaimed Irish poet who suddenly went silent

Obituary: The Dublin man was predicted to be ‘one of the significant poets of his generation’

Where’s your family name from? Dictionary goes free for lockdown bonding

Oxford online tool drops paywall for a week – but crashes as curious users flood the site

Ingenious Ireland a window on a not so distant past

Breadth of the book ranges from natural history to industrialisation and to sociology

The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles: A seminal book

Book review: Margaret Scull looks at the church’s role in the Troubles over 30 years

Ulster University mathematician receives award for raising public awareness of maths

‘It’s such an honour to be given this award and I’m truly grateful to everyone at Maths Week Ireland’

The Limerick man unknown in Ireland but revered by millions worldwide

Max Arthur Macauliffe is considered the most significant western figure in the history of Sikhism

Bird, bint, biddy, filly: Oxford dictionaries urged to ‘eliminate sexist definitions’

Thousands sign petition calling on publisher to delete entries that ‘discriminate against and patronise women’

French woman set to be rehabilitated as world’s oldest person

Jeanne Calment died in 1997, aged 122. New research has rejected claims she was a fraud

Illustrators who refuse to be left out of the picture

Fed up of her work going uncredited in children’s books, Sarah McIntyre decided to act

European Communion – How a sixth-century Irish saint helped unite the continent

An Irishman’s Diary

My Bergmanesque despair is being dialled up to 11

The Oxford English Dictionary’s newest entries include more than 100 film-related terms

Stolen WB Yeats letters rediscovered at Princeton University

‘I am desperately hard up and owe about £20,’ Yeats wrote in plea to publisher to be paid

Avoiding the ‘doom loop’: Why Ireland needed the IMF in 2009

Ashoka Mody oversaw the IMF’s relationship with Ireland in 2009, when politicians were ‘in denial’

The durable democrat

John Redmond’s Irish Parliamentary Party still casts a long shadow over the politics of modern Ireland

Homs locals aim to open new chapter in battered city’s history

Couple’s English-language bookshop part of efforts to preserve Syria’s built heritage

Digital economy: Low pay, long hours, no security

Idea of humans as a service doesn’t sit well with most people’s sensibilities

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