Ceremony in Inniskeen celebrates ‘Stony Grey Soil’ poet 50 years after his death

Patrick Pye, a religious artist who has fading sight, deemed ineligible for stipend

Author writes six-page letter to Arts Council describing proposals as ‘oddly North Korean’

Alan McMonagle’s enthralling debut follows an Irish teenager trying to imagine a better life

The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be

Corcadorca’s latest production, ‘Sacrifice at Easter’, is set in Cork’s 17th-century Elizabeth Fort and the play is as much about the site as the script

Roddy Doyle’s novel about a 10-year-old whose parents’ marriage is falling apart reveals the dark secret that the writer had been a literary novelist all along

The former teacher’s dark masterpiece gives a disconcerting but compelling voice to the mistreated children who were Ireland’s darkest secret

To mark the publication of Dermot Healy’s Collected Short Stories and Fighting with Shadows, the editors, Neil Murphy and Keith Hopper, offer reflections on a writer’s writer

The nature of last Sunday’s match made it Mayo’s story but what about the Dublin fans?

Garda asks Ceann Comhairle to remove his name after accusation

Aosdána told cut in funding an illustration of the arts’ ‘peripheral’ place in Irish society

Thirty-four authors have made the longlist for the inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction

This week, to mark the end of our How to Write a Book series, we have a daily Q&A with a debut author

Five Go on a Treasure Hunt: We gave five treasure hunters €100 each and sent them off to flea markets and car-boot sales to seek bargains. So how much would the five items fetch at auction? The news is not good

An Irishman’s Diary on the dark secret of a Clones street

Its days are numbered unless the GAA issues a reprieve – I’m all for the whales. But let’s save Clones too

Cartographer Garrett Carr has drawn maps of the Border that ignore political divisions and instead chart how people in the region interact with the landscape