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The letter points to the political and financial support which successive Irish governments have given the Palestinian people. Photograph: Yannis Behrakis/Reuters
Former envoys call for recognition of Palestinian state

Almost 90 leading artists, academics and former ambassadors have signed a letter to Taoiseach Enda Kenny urging the Government to formally recognise t(...)

Anne Enright will help celebrate 25 years of the Irish Writers Centre with an event on Thursday. Photograph: Alan Betson
Dublin Book Festival: eight to see this weekend

The Centre Holds Smock Alley Theatre, Thursday, 10 November, 6:30pm The Irish Writers Centre is marking its 25th anniversary with an anthology of ess(...)

Children’s Books: Once Upon a Place, The Boy Who Fell off The Mayflower and The Day The Crayons Came Home
  • Books
  • October 17, 2015, 01:00

For just under 30 years PJ Lynch has been winning national and international acclaim for the illustrations he has provided for a wide range of childre(...)

In a pinch: a crab, part of the big planetary recycle. Illustration: Michael Viney
Another Life: Land and sea locked into a timeless exchange

For every grain of mineral sand that whispers across the dunes as a fragment of a ground-down Irish mountain, another wind-blown particle began in (...)

Rick O’Shea: ‘Being really well-prepared and well-briefed is the key to doing any interview.’ Photograph: Eric Luke
Rick O’Shea: an unversed choice for RTÉ’s new poetry show

Rick O’Shea, the likable and popular broadcaster, is looking across the RTÉ canteen table at me as if he’s slowly transforming into a seal pup who (...)

Parnell Square East, Dublin, showing Findalters Church and and Cavendish Row. Photograph: Jack McManus/THE IRISH TIMES
The Times We Lived In

Published November 25th, 1955Photograph by Jimmy McCormack (...)

Dublin book event to celebrate capital city in verse and song 2:07
Dublin book event to celebrate capital city in verse and song

A month-long programme of events celebrating a collection of verse and songs associated with Dublin was officially announced by Lord Mayor of Dubli(...)

Ivana Bacik
What Mandela meant to me
  • Africa
  • December 6, 2013, 13:50

Ivana Bacik Senator and academicI think Nelson Mandela has had an immense impact on the world. He has been a shining example of the power of forgivene(...)

A piper leading the funeral of Seamus Heaney through Bellaghy yesterday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Poet laid to rest under shadow of sycamore trees

Seamus Heaney was laid to rest yesterday evening in a country churchyard in south Derry under the shade of sycamore and ash trees.“May the green sods (...)