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Flaubert’s travel diary goes up for auction for €600,000

The handwritten book reveals the Madame Bovary author’s literary struggles, and is part of an auction cache that includes first editions of works by Goethe and the Marquis de Sade

Scottish bard Ossian ‘fabricated’ from Irish mythology

Researchers link mathematical properties of ‘epic’ texts to hero tales of Fenian cycle

British shops warned over customers eating daffodils

Bulbs mistaken for onions and leaves for Chinese vegetables, warns health body

The Loafing Heroes: raggle-taggle songs about Casement and Kierkegaard

The band want to bring back the fine art of loafing, along with a few more serious concerns

Billie Barry funeral ‘perfectly-choreographed celebration’

Barry instilled ‘confidence, competence and creativity’ into generations of children

Word for Word: Trains and poems go far together

Move over Chris Hadfield as new space commander tweets as Gaeilge from space

Col Douglas Wheelock sends message to Ireland on St Patrick’s Day

Obituary: Heaney ‘the most important Irish poet since Yeats’

His books sold and continue to sell in the tens of thousands, while hordes of ‘Heaneyboppers’ flocked to his readings

Thatcher funeral arrangements published

Readings will include TS Eliot and Wordsworth

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