Patrick Kavanagh

Before now, emphasis was placed on rural landscape and western seaboard in Irish art. KATHRYN MILIGAN'S book has taken a different approach Art (...)

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(...)

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 (...)

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(...)

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(...)

Haunted by intimate and public grief, the US president-elect is the most Gothic figure in American politics Mourning becomes Joe Biden. “I have (...)

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(...)

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 has agreed to license a back catalogue that includes the Chieftains and Sean Ó Riada to music giant Universal. Founded by friends Ga(...)

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(...)