Historic Mayo woman to be featured on TG4 show - What's on
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Professor Roy Foster to receive Lifetime Achievement Award
The An Post Irish Book Awards that Professor Roy Foster is the recipient of this year’s ‘Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award’.
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Roy Foster: Irish reunification 'is nearer than I would have thought it a couple of decades ago' – The Irish Times
The historian discusses an array of subjects, including the damage wrought by Brexit, comparing WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney, and why ‘the whole revisionism thing is over’
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Lifetime Achievement Award for Roy Foster; Louise Nealon's Snowflake to be Dublin's One Book – The Irish Times
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and a preview of tomorrow’s pages
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Full of Grace – Frank McNally on Dublin's latter-day love affair with Grace Gifford-Plunkett – The Irish Times
Exhibitions shed light on a vivid personality
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'I was five when I saw my first opera and about 14 when my dad started building the theatre' – The Irish Times
Polly Graham, who is directing Irish National Opera’s new Cosi Fan Tutte as an antidote to cancel culture, grew up with an opera house in the back garden
Source: irishtimes.com
Seamus Heaney, pseudonym 'Incertus' | Princeton University Press
When he first began to publish poems, Seamus Heaney’s chosen pseudonym was ‘Incertus’, meaning ‘not sure of himself’. Characteristically, this was a subtle irony.
Source: princeton.edu
Playwright of the Western World – Frank McNally on 150 years of JM Synge
It was Yeats who had encouraged him to go west in search of writing material among the Irish-speaking areas that were even then dwindling. As well as the Aran Islands, Synge spent valuable time in West Kerry â where the fictional Christy Mahon begins his odyssey â and in Mayo, where most of the Playboyâs action occurs. But by his own account, a crucial part of Syngeâs education also happened in the east, among the Wicklow Mountains, where he set his early one-act play, In th...
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