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Webinar: Women in Science and Medicine - Saint Brigid’s Day 2021 Event 04 February 2021 On 2 February 2021, the Embassy of Ireland to Belgium hosted a special St Brigid’s Day Webinar celebrating Irish and Belgian #VisibleWomen​ in science and medicine. Dr Antonia Hart led an open and engaging panel discussion on Irish and Belgian women in science, medicine and leadership, both past and present, with particular focus on hidden narratives and lesser-known figures. The est...

Updated / Thursday, 21 Jan 2021 16:00 In the Poetry Programme on Sunday 24th January, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Kerry Hardie and John O’Donnell join presenter Olivia O’Leary to read new poems inspired by nature, loss and wonder. Kerry Hardie is based in Co. Kilkenny and has published eight collections of poetry and her latest collection, Where Now Begins (Bloodaxe Books), was published in 2020. She joins Olivia to read poems from the collection which celebrate nature and reflect on dea...

The books that brought writers like Roddy Doyle and Tana French comfort in 2020 Irish and Ireland-based writers, including Roddy Doyle, Sinéad Gleeson and Tana French, tell us about the books that soothed them this year. By Aoife Barry Wednesday 30 Dec 2020, 6:30 PM Dec 30th 2020, 6:30 PM 14,479 Views 2 Comments Image: Shutterstock/simona pi...

  Not the least of our losses in this plague year was one of our greatest poets, Derek Mahon. Washing Up (Gallery Press) is a glorious late harvest - vigorous, funny, angry, blithe - beautifully produced, like all Gallery editions, and including, appropriately, a lovely tribute to another luminary of the dead poets society, Ciaran Carson. Mahons last is vividly alive. Vincent van Gogh: A Life in Letters, edited by Nienke Bakker, Leo Jansen and Hans Luijten (Thames & Hudson) is a ju...