The Yeats sisters: ‘The untold stories of these fantastic Irish women’
Musician and art historian Lyndsey McDougall on her muse Lily Yeats, and the unexpected convergence of religion and rock’n’roll
WB Yeats
Story of a Song review: How Spandau Ballet’s Through the Barricades emerged from the Troubles
Television: Engaging Aistear an Amhráin series is the sort of show RTÉ needs to make more of
‘Yeats was the mage, but AE was the sage’: Why George William Russell deserves to be a household name again
A luminous centre of the Irish literary renaissance, a figure of world importance
Sarah Long: Aisling Is a Dream review – Ambitious exhibition builds powerful symbolic forms
The artist’s paintings are a blend of quasi-religious iconography, personal memory, poetic allusion and feminist semiotics
Red into the record – Frank McNally on Peadar O’Donnell’s libel case against the Irish Rosary magazine
The trial had its origins in the ‘Red Scare’ general election of 1932
Was William Blake, one of England’s greatest poets, actually Irish?
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
For a united Ireland to work messy compromises will be needed, but we can’t gift Irish identity to the far-right
Many far-right groups in Ireland now appropriate traditional symbols of Irishness and present themselves as guardians of a ‘pure’ Irish nation
Author Shane Hegarty: ‘I’m lucky to see the work done by teachers. They are undervalued’
The writer on his new picture book, the film adaptation of Darkmouth and kids who never seem to run out of questions
Daily Mail owner Lord Rothermere in a spot of bother with his Dublin tenants
Plus: Marc MacSharry will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree; Sammy Wilson’s silence; and Henry Kelly’s political allegiance
Ithell Colquhoun: The forgotten ‘Celtic fringe’ surrealist who could be art’s next big star
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
Delicate task of returning lantern that lit Yeats’s way up ‘the winding stair’ from the US to its Galway home
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
Papers handed to Irish ambassador cast doubt on whether Yeats’s remains were correctly identified
Nephew of painter Hannah Gluckstein, a member of poet’s late circle, approached embassy with information in 1978
It’s time Dublin had a statue to unconventional, complex Maud Gonne MacBride
Attitudes to her have been reductive, shaped by the mores of the time and her failed marriage
One Leg One Eye review: Forget Fairytale of New York. This is a soundtrack of the real Irish Christmas
Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise
Ralph Fiennes at the Abbey Theatre: An electrifying, moving reading of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets
The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024
Fintan O’Toole on his career: ‘You had to learn to live with the fact that some people despised you’
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
David Marcus, The Irish Times and a golden age of literary journalism
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
Sligo hotel with sea views for €7m
Four-star 98 bed Yeats Country Hotel is in picturesque village of Rosses Point
A New York Times book critic spent five days in Dublin. Here’s how he got on
The city is a soulful playground for the kind of people who have spectacles on their nose and autumn in their hearts
A History of Irish Magic: Occultism of national life explored
Sally and James North suggest the Druidic tradition and Brehon Law enshrined magic in Gaelic culture and injected public affairs with mysticism
Francis Bacon’s Nanny: A peek into the darkness of the artist’s childhood
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
I wanted to write a book about Irish women’s writing. They told me to include men
If anything will embitter you, it is researching and writing a history of Irish women’s writing
Distinctively Irish, creatively modern: Roy Foster on Sarah Purser, the most successful portrait painter of her day
The artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspire
Distinctively Irish, creatively modern: Roy Foster on Sarah Purser, the most successful portrait painter of her day
The artist is the subject of a new exhibition at the Hugh Lane, the Dublin gallery that she helped to inspire
TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this week
March 3rd-8th: From royal drama Mary & George to Imelda May on WB Yeats’s forgotten sisters
History suggests Mary Lou McDonald’s comments on unity are wildly exaggerated
Those on both sides of the unity argument need to find answers that go beyond sloganeering
Voluntary contributions to the arts
A rich legacy and a vital part of the story of the arts in Ireland
A man of many parts - Ray Burke on Edward Martyn
The playwright and landowner died this month 100 years ago but his legacy lives on in a veritable treasure house of the Celtic Revival in Loughrea’s cathedral
WB Yeats’s Nobel banquet: The food they ate, the wine they drank, and what it said about Ireland
The Stephen’s Green Club, in Dublin, honoured the poet with a celebratory dinner. The programme is a portal to a transformative period of Irish history
Pilgrim Soul: Readable portrayal of the enigma of WB Yeats
Daniel Mulhall covers the main elements of the poet’s life from his fascination with the occult to his relationship with fascism and eugenics
Ireland saw ‘bad books’ and ‘immodest fashion’ everywhere, but was blind to homegrown hells
One of the great ironies of the censorship crusade was that so much “evil” under Irish noses was ignored
Roy Foster: Irish reunification ‘is nearer than I would have thought it a couple of decades ago’
The historian discusses an array of subjects, including the damage wrought by Brexit, comparing WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and why ‘the whole revisionism thing is over’
To err is human. Or it used to be, before we outsourced the job to tech
The Dublin Marathon medal howlers raise the question of what is going on in a culture supposedly more educated than ever before
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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