Richard Ellmann
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A portrait of the artist as poet – An Irishman’s Diary on James Joyce
- Opinion
- January 25, 2021, 00:01
We well know by now that America’s new president Joe Biden likes to quote Irish poets, particularly Seamus Heaney. His eve of inauguration reference t(...)

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(...)

‘I can’t do thrillers or spy novels or genre fiction. I just get bored'
- Books
- July 22, 2019, 11:09
Colm Tóibín, award-winning writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, and professor of the humanities at Columbia University, New York, was born in En(...)

Seamus Heaney, our dad the poet, by Catherine, Chris and Mick Heaney
- Books
- June 30, 2018, 06:00
Five years after the jolt of Seamus Heaney’s unexpected death we are back at a moment. Back with Heaney, whose poems resonate with the rhythm of the l(...)

Leopold Bloom’s arithmetical adventures
- Science
- June 7, 2018, 06:00
As Bloomsday approaches, there is merit in reflecting on James Joyce’s relationship with mathematics. He entered UCD in September 1898. His examinatio(...)

Julia O'Faolain: a star in an artistic galaxy
- Books
- April 2, 2013, 07:00
Julia O’Faolain looks a little bit lost, somehow. She has come from London to Dublin to publicise her newly-published memoir, Trespassers . It is a(...)