The artist’s paintings are a blend of quasi-religious iconography, personal memory, poetic allusion and feminist semiotics

The trial had its origins in the ‘Red Scare’ general election of 1932

Scholars have long maintained that WB Yeats was being fanciful when he claimed one of England’s greatest poets was in fact Irish. But a new look at the story suggests an alternative possibility

Many far-right groups in Ireland now appropriate traditional symbols of Irishness and present themselves as guardians of a ‘pure’ Irish nation

The writer on his new picture book, the film adaptation of Darkmouth and kids who never seem to run out of questions

Plus: Marc MacSharry will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree; Sammy Wilson’s silence; and Henry Kelly’s political allegiance

Born in India, then sent home to England as a baby, the artist developed an affinity with the ‘Celtic fringe’ and the sexual preoccupations of WB Yeats

A stained glass lantern owned by WB Yeats which wound its way across the Atlantic has been lovingly brought back to Ireland after almost 100 years

Nephew of painter Hannah Gluckstein, a member of poet’s late circle, approached embassy with information in 1978

Attitudes to her have been reductive, shaped by the mores of the time and her failed marriage

Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise

The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024

The Irish Times columnist has made a new documentary about his life for RTÉ. Here he looks back on a career that he began as the Michelangelo of Tipp-Ex

Even at a time of much cross-fertilisation between the literary and journalistic worlds, it was a brave and radical idea to run a regular creative-writing page in a daily newspaper. In pursuing this, David Marcus nurtured many young talents

Four-star 98 bed Yeats Country Hotel is in picturesque village of Rosses Point

The city is a soulful playground for the kind of people who have spectacles on their nose and autumn in their hearts

Sally and James North suggest the Druidic tradition and Brehon Law enshrined magic in Gaelic culture and injected public affairs with mysticism

Migrants have long been part of Ireland’s history

Maylis Besserie’s novel lays bare the cruelty of Bacon’s father as seen through the eyes of the family’s domestic servant Jessie Lightfoot

If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing