Paul Muldoon

Liam Neeson, Colm Tóibín sign letter asking that Fifth Avenue building not be sold

An Irishman’s Diary

An Irishman’s Diary

Cambridge University pays ‘six-figure sum’ for material belonging to late Barrie Cooke

Militaristic, nationalistic language of Amhrán na bhFiann will have to go

Attractions from Titanic Belfast to the Seamus Heaney HomePlace are set to play leading role in campaign to woo more tourists over the next decade

Dylan, Patti Smith, Gil Scott-Heron and Lou Reed wrote song-poems that transcended pop, and bands such as Fontaines DC are keeping rock and poetry in perfect rhyme

Prominent member of ‘Belfast Group’ of poets which included Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon

Sinéad Morrissey, John Banville and fellow writers salute a great man and a great poet

Government must face new realities when replacing TV licence with broadcasting charge

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

Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet on his love of Derry Girls, Glen Hansard’s new album and Etto

Radio Review: After initial gruffness, Duffy grows genuinely concerned for his guest

To celebrate 30 years in New York, the company is staging the playwright’s ‘Dublin’ trilogy

The Horslips man on Aoife Duffin’s powerful acting and Stephen Hawking’s humour

The issue of artists’ livelihood dominated a 250-strong gathering at Dublin Castle

Actor named as cultural ambassador for Ireland says ‘we can’t take art for granted’

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

The city’s Irish Arts Center is changing perceptions of Ireland and Irish America

From Macnas parades and the Bram Stoker Festival to Guinness Cork Jazz Festival

It’s hard not to be bamboozled by the choice on offer. Here’s a selection of the best bits

Programme straddling popular and esoteric work attracts record numbers

Incantata review: the staging of Paul Muldoon’s elegy for a lover and a fellow artist is grief as an artform

Highlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the Moon

David Mach’s vehicles explode out of an old print work’s concrete floor, an inflatable moon rises over the street, a sharp new Irish play opens - and that’s before Galway International Arts Festival opens tonight

This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts

Paul Muldoon’s long poem in memory of his former partner is premiering as a theatre piece at the Galway Arts Festival with a performance by Stanley Townsend

Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020

‘It’s one of our most basic instincts; to listen to a song, listen to a poem – even in this era when people have their noses stuck in their tablets, it still works’, says the poet Paul Muldoon

Seán Doran and Liam Browne want people in the Border counties to celebrate their shared literary heritge

Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture

As he releases a new album, the acclaimed songwriter has little interest in his legacy – ‘Time takes care of that’

The poet’s ethical concerns are evident throughout this landmark collection

Stephen Rea, Loudon Wainwright III and Christian Blackshaw are among the highlights

Ever since the seismic events of 1916 Irish artists have taken a nuanced view of events

A centenary poem as Gaeilge (translated into English underneath)

A special commission for the centenary of the 1916 Rising