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Funeral of Seamus Heaney to be broadcast live on RTÉ
The funeral mass will be held tomorrow morning in Donnybrook.
Your contributions will help us continue to deliver the stories that are important to you
The funeral mass will be held tomorrow morning in Donnybrook.
“His lines could embody a dark, marshy melancholy, but as often as not they also communicated the wild onrushing joy of being alive.”
Remembering the life of Seamus Heaney in pictures.
The Nobel laureate recently suffered from ill health, and was reported have collapsed earlier this week.
Mario Vargas Llosa has been an important figure in world literature since the 1960s – and will speak to students and some lucky members of the public at Spanish institute in Dublin.
The proposal is part of a document proposing radical ways to reverse the decline in Ireland’s share of world tourism.
The Nobel laureate has given a lifetime of literary papers, including early drafts of poems, notebooks and corrections.
The 80-year-old Swedish poet was named this year’s winner to loud cheers at a press conference in Stockholm.
One of Kenya’s most recognisable women Wangari Maathai, who won the Nobel in 2004 for combining environmentalism and social activism, has passed away following a long struggle with cancer.