Denis Donoghue obituary: One of the world’s foremost scholars of modern literature

One student recalled ‘it was easy to mistake his grand, rolling cadences for the voice of God’

Denis Donoghue: President leads tributes to late scholar and literary critic

Father of novelist Emma Donoghue held professorships at New York University and UCD

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks: 2010 – Room, by Emma Donoghue

The Dublin author’s book is an intensification of the common experience of having a child, in all its claustrophobic terror and glory

Shakespeare and me: Irish writers on the Bard's best bits

Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death

Drumcliffe still a draw for Yeats fans, says festival head

Emergence of new documents cast doubt over whether poet’s remains buried in Sligo

What is poetry? Three masters look for answers

Beekeeping, Belfast and Buddhism: books of lectures by Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Michael Longley cast the net wide

Glasgow’s poorest have big say in fate of union

Most deprived areas of city are referendum battlegrounds that Yes side targeted

Samuel Beckett’s forgotten story, finally published after 80 years: Echo’s Bones

Review: Rejected in 1933 as a nightmare, Beckett’s story in fact is clean fun, witty but not vulgar

The Irish William Blake: The Writings of James Barry and the Genre of History Painting

Review: Barry believed that the sole purpose of landscape was to serve as background to the depiction of “significant human action”, which was the central business of a serious painter

The limits of dissent

Ivan Klíma was clearly a dissident. But then the Czech writer was too cautious to sign Charter 77, and now he is oddly accepting of Václav Havel

Word for Word: Learning to get more out of reading

The Letters of TS Eliot, Volume 4: 1928-1929

The latest huge volume of the poet’s correspondence deals mainly with his failing first marriage, the complexities of his Anglican faith and his editorship of the ‘Criterion’