Lise Hand: Hilda Moriarty inspired ‘Raglan Road’, so why isn’t she remembered?
Lise Hand Journalist-at-large EIGHTY YEARS AGO this Saturday, on 3 October 1946, a poem was published in the…
Elegant Limerick home that hosted Éamon de Valera and Richard Harris – The Irish Times
Address: Sunville House, North Circular Road, Limerick Price: €3,200,000 Agent: Sherry FitzGerald Earlier this month, the State marked…
Former Irish Times chief critic Brian Fallon dies aged 93 – The Irish Times
The author, essayist and critic Brian Fallon has died. He was 93. A former literary editor of The…
I still describe my day to my husband John Montague 10 years after his death – The Irish Times
John Montague was a renowned and beloved poet both in Ireland and internationally. He was also my husband.…
Nuala O’Faolain: Are You Somebody? Honesty that’s compelling and at times unsettling – The Irish Times
Are You Somebody? Author: Nuala O’Faolain ISBN-13: 9781835940488 Publisher: New Island Guideline Price: €16.95, 296pp Nuala O’Faolain’s Are…
The real Ginger Man and Dublin’s secret kingdom of alcohol and lawless camaraderie – The Irish Times
When JP Donleavy stepped off the boat on to Irish soil in June 1946, he found himself entering…
We were treated more like ‘comrades’ than children – The Irish Times
Acclaimed Belfast poet Sinéad Morrissey lived in four different houses growing up in Northern Ireland, but mostly she…
How Patrick Kavanagh’s immortal poem On Raglan Road was lost and then found – The Irish Times
It’s unusual, if not rare, for a work by an acclaimed poet to appear in the pages of…