One of Ireland’s greatest poets died fifty years ago today. So let’s make a bit of space for that too.

South Derry farming folk, sending their children away to board in Derry city, were assured that at least they’d get a good dinner. They didn’t.

Barra O Seaghdha considers just how easy it might have been at several steps along his ascending career path for Seamus Heaney to turn away from the past.

Let us not forget Seamus Heaney’s wonderful gifts as a prose writer.

Rita Thalmann, an historian born in Nuremberg who taught and published in France, was one of the last historians of Nazism to have personal experience of it in the disasters it brought on her family.

Yorkshire folk have a strong reputation for telling it like it is, which leaves them free to tell it like it isn’t.

It is perhaps the greatest of understatements to say that Ulster loyalism gets a bad press. But some people are working to help foster an articulacy in the community that might end up being beneficial to everyone.

Elmore Leonard, master of slick plots and sharp dialogue, has died aged eighty-seven. Here are his ten rules for writing.

In August 1947 George Orwell nearly drowned himself, his infant son and his niece and nephew; and noticed some interesting activity by cormorants and puffins.

We may have left certain practices of our childhood and youth behind, but they haven’t gone away, you know.