Atrocities must never be commemorated but one-perspective narratives are propaganda

New plaques celebrating Yeats, ‘The Kasbah’ and Ó Conaire to be unveiled in Galway city

Sixty-year-old absurdist comedy in the Civil Service remains as fresh as ever

The challenge in translating the greatest Irish-language novel is capturing something close to Máirtín Ó Cadhain’s linguistic energy in English

Sara Baume and Colm Tóibín will also take part in this year’s literary event in Galway

Bob Marley agus Bob Dylan as Gaeilge? Liam Carson, director of the IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival, which starts this Thursday, explains how it seeks to place the Irish language and its literature at the heart of public life within a modern, energetic and multicultural framework

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Dublin Writers Museum opened 22 years ago to celebrate the capital’s literary tradition but it now feels more like a mausoleum

Writer and critic best known for ‘Oxford Companion to Irish Literature’