These days there is a sense of an Irish writing culture exploding around the world, fuelled – depending on who you read – by a booming network of literary magazines, publishers and festivals ...

“The Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates”—William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney—in cast bronze by internationally noted Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The piece was ...

He believed passionately in a brand of Irish Nationalism where art and literature revived myth and legend, and where courageous political figures would give Ireland a sense of what it was to be Irish.

“Liberal, internationalist, outward facing” is how Patrick Freyne described Ireland recently in The Irish Times ... by the region’s wealth of great literature. The depth, the culture ...