The Irish Times

Rethinking the meaning of revival of the Irish language

Irish has been instrumentalised for centuries in many ways beyond domain of cultural nationalism

Mon Aug 12 2019 - 05:00

Gaeltacht artists: ‘It’s career suicide to move here'

It is a great challenge to get by as an artist in the Gaeltacht. So why is it that so many cannot bring themselves to leave?

Tue Dec 06 2016 - 05:00

Letter from writers expresses concern about Skellig Michael filming

Weather allows shooting to begin on scenes from ‘Star Wars VIII: The Force Awakens’

Wed Sept 16 2015 - 11:24

In praise of Biddy Jenkinson, by Caitlín Nic Íomhair

The Irish language poet is famously private, but her work is anything but witholding, full of love and laughter, amazement and hope

Tue Aug 04 2015 - 16:13

Louis de Paor’s unsentimental poems lead to a fresh treatment of old material

Alan Gillis is a master of catching his reader by surprise

Sat Oct 25 2014 - 00:34

Taking literature in Irish out of the Gaelic ghetto

Bob Marley agus Bob Dylan as Gaeilge? Liam Carson, director of the IMRAM Irish Language Literature Festival, which starts this Thursday, explains how it seeks to place the Irish language and its literature at the heart of public life within a modern, energetic and multicultural framework

Mon Oct 06 2014 - 12:04