Theo Dorgan
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Sporting Poetry: Seeing far beyond the scoreboard
- Sport
- April 4, 2020, 06:00
Maybe the price sports writing pays for daily beat writers whose job is volume and speed as much as reflection is that points of difference between va(...)

Loco por Lorca: An Irish celebration of the great Spanish poet
- Art & Design
- October 10, 2019, 05:30
“We were all walking out into new ground,” poet Theo Dorgan says of the making of Loco por Lorca, a celebration of the great Spanish poet, which embra(...)

‘Ciaran Carson drew Belfast better than anyone I ever read’
- Books
- October 7, 2019, 17:20
Sinéad Morrissey, John Banville and fellow writers salute a great man and a great poet Sinéad Morrissey “It’s not about you, it’s about the lang(...)

Composer Roger Doyle elevated to Saoi by Aosdána
- Culture
- August 16, 2019, 18:10
The composer Roger Doyle was made a Saoi (wise one) of Aosdána at a ceremony on Friday addressed by President Michael D Higgins. Only seven members o(...)

Ireland ‘ruthlessly condemns artists to lives of poverty’
- Culture
- May 15, 2019, 15:56
Arts funding should be restored to boom-era levels to compensate for the sector’s lack of resources, a new Oireachtas report suggests. The Arts Matte(...)

Derek Mahon wins this year’s Irish Times Poetry Now award
- Poetry
- March 30, 2019, 10:20
The winner of this year’s Irish Times Poetry Now award is the Belfast-born poet Derek Mahon for Against the Clock (Gallery Press). This is the third t(...)

Board governance at the heart of problem at the Abbey, says Garry Hynes
- Culture
- January 23, 2019, 19:00
Governance of the Abbey Theatre is at the heart of the issues at the national theatre, Druid Theatre artistic director Garry Hynes has said. She tol(...)

Cork in the 80s: documenting a difficult decade in the city’s history
- Books
- December 20, 2018, 11:11
A line from Philip Larkin was on my mind while working on this project. Not the famous reference to his parents, but an aside about beginnin(...)

Josepha Madigan on culture and her racy self-published novel
- Culture
- November 29, 2018, 05:00
“Oh God, how did you find it, dare I ask?” asks Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Josepha Madigan as I produce a book from my bag durin(...)

Aosdána poet Matthew Sweeney dies at 65 of motor neurone disease
- Books
- August 5, 2018, 21:44
Tributes have been paid to poet Matthew Sweeney, who has died aged 65. The Lifford, Co Donegal-born poet, who lived in Cork, had motor neurone disease(...)