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Ursula Halligan questioned the Sinn Féin leader on the appropriateness of some of his tweets.
Lingo Festival takes place in Dublin this weekend.
The poem has been called “moving” and “beautiful”.
Here’s a collection of art inspired by the beloved poet…
For when you want to rest the squat pen between finger and thumb and, you know, write a letter…
Roddy Doyle has described Healy as “Ireland’s greatest writer”.
The author passed away today at the age of 86.
“Seven pound an hour/ Is the price of my labour/ Loyalty costs more.”
He has been training to kill you, so you might wanna listen up.
The book features poetry and song lyrics about Dublin, but it’s not just for poetry buffs.
Can’t we get more from our vast historic and modern wellspring of poetry? We are, after all, the nation that has reputedly more poets per square mile than any other in the world, writes Stephen Downes.
Roses are red, violets are blue, we can write poetry, how about you?
There is the lack of any serious radical political or cultural response to the current crisis in Ireland, writes Ciaran McCullagh.
Yeats died 75 years ago today but his work is still being studied in schools across the country. Are there any lines still floating around in your heads from your schooldays?
He (or his speechwriter) wrote an elegiac homily to the late Nobel laureate poet that evokes Heaney’s Mid-Term Break.
As a young woman, Salma was forced into a life of virtual isolation – in first her father’s and then her husband’s home. But when her raw and eloquent poetry finally found an audience, the reaction was explosive, writes filmmaker Kim Longinotto.
Hundreds of people turned out to pay tribute to the renowned poet.
Heaney, a Derry native, had called Dublin his home for the past number of decades.
John Halligan said the poems will be based on his life in politics.
“Between my finger and my thumb…”
In a statement this lunchtime, the Taoiseach said that Heaney “was the keeper of the language, our codes, our essence as a people”
Remembering the life of Seamus Heaney in pictures.
The Nobel Laureate has died at the age of 74.
Go Seamus, it’s yo birthday, we’re gonna party like it’s yo birthday.
Nowruz is a traditional festival to mark spring – and last night people from Ireland’s Afghan, Azerbaijani, Baha’I, Iranian, Kazakh, Kurdish and Turkish communities all gathered to celebrate it.
The things we learned, loved and shared today…
Today is World Poetry Day, and it’s Leaving Cert Paper 2 all over again.
‘Hail to the Tempest’ by Musa Okwonga paints the ex-United and Ireland footballer in a mythical light.
The 58-year-old died suddenly on Christmas Eve.
Go on, give it a go…
China’s Mo Yan has won the Nobel Literature Prize.
The Seamus Heaney poem ‘Mid-term Break’ always resonated with cystic fibrosis rights campaigner Orla Tinsley – and made her realise that life, though fragile, can be “calculated and powerful”.
Oxford University academics say the Bard had a little help on All’s Well that Ends Well – one of his best known plays.
An American poet,who declined the honour of receiving the National Medal for the Arts, is remembered.
A Pennsylvania state Supreme Court justice known for producing opinions in rhyme has done it again – writing six pages of verse in an insurance fraud case.
The Nobel laureate has given a lifetime of literary papers, including early drafts of poems, notebooks and corrections.
Culture Night kicks off this evening, with free art, music, theatre and dancing events taking place across the country – as well as galleries, churches and museums staying open late for the public. Check out some of tonight’s highlights…
Each day for the 16 days of ABSOLUT Fringe 2011 in Dublin, we quiz the creatives on how they work, why they work – and their tips for the festival.
Denis Buckley has been a doorman and a welder but now that he’s a poet, he’s trying to define what exactly that value that holds at this time…
Every day, TheJournal.ie brings you reader-generated reviews of the hottest tickets at the ABSOLUT Fringe Festival 2011.
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