Maud Gonne
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A Century of Doom – Frank McNally on how things fall apart, but not Yeats’s most quoted poem
- Opinion
- November 18, 2020, 19:01
WB Yeats’s The Second Coming is officially 100 years old this month, having first appeared in the Christmas 1920 issue of American literary magazine T(...)

Charity auction to raise funds for monumental Sandycove sculpture
- Fine Art & Antiques
- October 24, 2020, 06:00
A charity art auction to raise funds for a monumental sculpture by Imogen Stuart in Sandycove is under way. When the German-Irish sculptor was awarde(...)

‘Short skirts and strong boots’: The pioneering feminism of Anna Parnell
- Books
- August 11, 2020, 06:05
The publication in 1986 of Anna Parnell’s The Tale of a Great Sham, scrupulously edited and annotated by Dana Hearne, was a landmark event in Irish wo(...)

Getting older is an exciting privilege, now more than ever
- People
- July 25, 2020, 06:00
Is there ever a good time to get old? If there is, this probably isn’t it. Coronavirus hits indiscriminately – they say – but it hits the elderly har(...)

Name and R-Number – Frank McNally on typos, tour guides, unusual baby names, and digging up the Hill of Tara
- Opinion
- June 26, 2020, 00:01
My apologies to Arran Henderson, the tour guide I mentioned here earlier in the week, whose first name I managed to get wrong despite double-checking (...)

The Second Coming – An Irishman’s Diary on WB Yeats and the Spanish flu pandemic
- Opinion
- May 25, 2020, 19:01
WB Yeats’s The Second Coming was written at a momentous time in 20th-century Europe, an era of uncertainty and upheaval in the wake of the first World(...)

Nollaig na mBan events to take place across the country
- Irish News
- January 5, 2020, 18:41
Events to celebrate Nollaig na mBan, or women’s Christmas, will take place across the country on Monday. Known also as Little Christmas, Nollaig na m(...)

A Yeats love story in a trunk comes to light – and to market
- Fine Art & Antiques
- December 7, 2019, 06:00
2019 has been quite the year for Jack Butler Yeats. After the recent Whytes and Christie’s sale at the RDS where a new world record was set for the ar(...)

In search of the banshee and the elusive lennanshee
- Opinion
- October 30, 2019, 18:00
Everybody in Ireland still knows what a banshee is, even if reported sightings seem to have tailed off dramatically since the coming of rural electrif(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Irish blood, English heart – and white skin?
- Opinion
- June 4, 2019, 05:00
On either side of the accession to power of Margaret Thatcher, two great songs acted as harbingers of the long, slow death of the British state. Both (...)