Patrick Kavanagh
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Painting Dublin: A visual history of Ireland’s capital city
- Visual Art
- January 9, 2021, 06:00
Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. KATHRYN MILIGAN'S book has taken a different approach Art (...)

Lessons from history – An Irishman’s Diary on Donogh O’Malley
- Opinion
- January 3, 2021, 18:02
Generations of Irish people have reason to be grateful to an Irish politician who was born 100 years ago on January 18th. His name was Donogh O’Malley(...)

Death of well-known priest Msgr Tom Stack
- Religion & Beliefs
- December 28, 2020, 21:29
The death has taken place of Msgr Tom Stack, former parish priest at Milltown in Dublin, regular contributor to The Irish Times and frequent guest on (...)

In a Word... goodbye 2020
- Culture
- December 26, 2020, 00:30
I hope you had a lovely Christmas, no matter how different. Because, just as we won’t ever forget 2020 no matter how we try, we won’t forget Christmas(...)

Rite&Reason: Hopeful waiting of Advent has more meaning than ever
- Opinion
- December 8, 2020, 01:54
Advent throws up many challenges for us this year, perhaps more than ever before. We are waiting for a vaccine, waiting to see when our economic and s(...)

Fintan O’Toole: Joe Biden is the US’s mourner-in-chief
- Opinion
- November 14, 2020, 06:00
Haunted by intimate and public grief, the US president-elect is the most Gothic figure in American politics Mourning becomes Joe Biden. “I have (...)

What is the going rate for a home in... Co Monaghan?
- Homes & Property
- October 9, 2020, 00:00
When it comes to making the case for a move to Monaghan, it could be argued that two of its most famous sons have put the county on the back foot. Fro(...)

Ploughs and Stars – Frank McNally on the furloughed furrows of October 2020
- Opinion
- October 2, 2020, 19:01
In the Methuen Book of Poems for Every Day, the month of October opens with a verse about ploughing. Well, sort of: It’s Patrick Kavanagh’s October, a(...)

Claddagh Records agrees licensing deal with Universal
- Media & Marketing
- August 29, 2020, 08:14
Claddagh Records has agreed to license a back catalogue that includes the Chieftains and Sean Ó Riada to music giant Universal. Founded by friends Ga(...)

Ladies First – Frank McNally on holy wells, unholy riots, and a landmark in literary lesbianism
- Opinion
- August 14, 2020, 19:01
One of the more astounding revelations of reading The Count of Monte Cristo – and I seem to be the first literary critic ever to have noticed this – i(...)