Patrick Kavanagh

Shortly after James Joyce took possession of the first copies of Ulysses in his Paris home on February 2nd, 1922, his 40th birthday, it became clear t(...)

Dublin’s Mount Streets, upper and lower, are presumed to be named for their proximity in former times to a “Gallows Hill”, located between there and w(...)

Imagine if scientists could use a telescope to peer back billions of years to the early days of the universe, to watch how planets, stars and galaxies(...)

Readers may recall that Wednesday’s Diary was accompanied by a picture of Patrick Kavanagh, sitting with his friend Elizabeth O’Toole and her children(...)

Among the revelations in Elizabeth O’Toole’s new memoir A Poet in the House, which we featured here yesterday, is what might be called fresh evidence (...)

How about this for the opening paragraph of a new book. It’s by the Clare-born poet Elizabeth O’Toole, now 96 and living in the US where she has spent(...)

Brendan Kennelly Date of birth: April 17th, 1936 Date of death: October 17th, 2021 “Though we live in a world that dreams of ending that always s(...)

The first documented report of a UFO,or flying saucer, in the United States was in 1947 when entrepreneur Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nin(...)

By a poignant coincidence, Tuesday’s funeral of my friend Steve Dunford fell on what, in the French revolutionary calendar, would have been New Year’s(...)

The dominant Irish politician of the 20th century, Eamon de Valera, attained and retained power for one-third of that century with the help of the new(...)