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Ernest Morrell, the Coyle Professor of Literacy Education at the University of Notre Dame, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...

The idea behind RTÉ’s Raised by the Village is deceptively simple. Each week, two vaguely troubled teenagers are taken from their homes in towns and cities and deposited with a family in rural Ireland for five days.

Overcoming adversity and unimaginable trauma and uncovering hidden truths are common threads in some of 2024′s most promising non-fiction titles.

Edna O’Brien returns to world of The Country Girls in The Light of Evening, with the mother-daughter relationship as the main theme. "A writer’s life is like an athlete’s life. You train every day of your life and even then it may not be as good as one had hoped,” says Edna O’Brien, who has

The creation of an ambitious Irish national literature for the future poses pressing questions on many fronts

One of Ireland’s great intellectuals

"In Munster, there are communities of poets in various places. So we looked at things like workshops, journals and festivals and how the poets were reading each other’s work."

Irish Identity and the Literary Revival: Synge, Yeats, Joyce and O'Casey. by Watson, George J. at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0064974952 - ISBN 13:  9780064974950 - Barnes & Noble Imports - 1979 - Hardcover

As Bloomsday approaches the Dublin artist Aidan Hickey reflects on his 18-painting collection, "Painting Ulysses", its journey so far and what's next for this critically acclaimed exhibition.

Lament for Art O’Leary, which Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill wrote for her murdered husband on May 4th, 1773, is still hugely powerful