Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a poet whose graceful and careful work made him one of the most cherished writers in Northern Ireland and, for some, the English-reading world. Longley’s ...

The significance of the opening in Ireland is that Cobain had Irish roots himself, having ancestors who emigrated to the ...

Remember when I read you Milton’s Lycidas, about the drowned shepherd who wasn’t dead at all? *** Nights. I hear you in the hallway child step pattering. It’s you — is it? Did you hear that, yes, ...