‘Prone to lose the run of himself’: Ireland’s taoisigh, from de Valera to Micheál Martin

In writing the foreword, current Taoiseach Micheál Martin spikily suggests that while there is more media coverage than ever ...

Solvej Balle: ‘I thought that if I started to write this, I would spoil it’

Solvej Balle’s near-40-year project, On the Calculation of Volume, seems both outside time and yet immediately relevant ...

Hugo Hamilton: ‘I love speaking Irish. It places me in a less aggressive country full of musical links to an ancient past’

The author on his new novel, Conversation with the Sea; his German heritage; and how Germany is in denial about Gaza ...

Poem of the Week: According to The Ravens

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is the 2025 Arts Council/ University College Dublin Writer In Residence. She is the poetry editor at The Stinging Fly Magazine. Today’s poem is from her tthird poetry collection ...