In a startling OECD study, it was found that up to 6% of Irish university graduates are functionally illiterate—meaning their reading and writing skills are ‘inadequate to manage daily living and employment tasks that require reading skills...
Irish-language
Literature Adviser appointed
Peter
Sirr has recently been engaged as the Arts Council’s Irish-language Literature
Adviser. As a Dublin native, poet, critic, prose writer and dramatist, Peter
Sirr has a wealth of artistic knowledge and will be...
As reported here before, Eason is pressing ahead with some major changes in its business model. In a move to reduce its share capital and continue to move its business online, Eason...
The
European Parliament recently voted in favour of changing the European Union’s
copyright rules. MEPs voted by 348 votes to 274 in favour of rules that will
force internet organisations such as YouTube and Google
to...
The £4m HomePlace centre
in County Derry—dedicated to the life and work of poet Seamus Heaney—has
suffered a £1m loss since it opened in 2016. The south Derry area has become a
popular place for...
Colm
Tóibín talks to Sue
Leonard about growing up without a father, being a writer and his
latest novel, Nora Webster
It’s Dublin on
a rainy autumnal afternoon, and Colm Tóibín is serenading me over the teacups.
He’s singing...
