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Seamus Heaney: ten years after his death, the generosity and warmth of his rich poetic voice endures

The English war poet Wilfred Owen once wrote, “Celebrity is the last infirmity I desire.” Killed in France at the age of 25, unpublished and unknown, “celebrity” for Owen was a posthumous phenomenon. By contrast, celebrity status for the Irish poet Seamus Heaney – “Famous Seamus” – came early in…

The Conversation

Royal Ascot 2023 Day Three: Emily Dickinson can win the Ascot Gold Cup

Aidan O'Brien's four-year-old can win the Group One feature while Village Voice, American Rascal, Bertinelli, Redarna, Drumroll and Saxon King may also score on day three of the Royal meeting

Liverpool Echo

‘A gas-guzzling villain’s lair’: welcome to LA’s grotesque new high-rise

Inspired by Yeats and Wagner, the (W)rapper tower was meant to reawaken the city skyline. But is this monstrous erection just a monument to its designer’s ego?

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Philip Larkin, a poet of transcendent beauty, of everyday directness

In a centenary celebration of the English poet, Guy Rundle considers the lasting impact of this inimitable purveyor of life’s ordinary wonders.

Crikey

A road trip through Yeats country

After the end of his relationship, JR Patterson went to Ireland in search of the land of the great poet and his own inner peace

The Independent UK

Airdrie 4, Falkirk 0: Gal the Airdrie hero with gift-wrapped win over Bairns

Rhys McCabe's side took back-to-back wins as they start their League One challenge with a bang

Daily Record

Aidan O'Brien's Kyprios pips Stradivarius in thrilling Goodwood Cup

O’Brien was winning the Goodwood showpiece for the third time, after the victories of Yeats in 2006 and 2008

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Royal Ascot 2022: Kyprios strikes Gold for Aidan O'Brien

Aidan O'Brien's rising staying star takes the Group One feature on day three in Berkshire with three-time hero Stradivarious third in his bid for record-equalling fourth success

Liverpool Echo

Royal Ascot 2022 Day Three: Kyprios to strike Gold and deny Stradivarius a record win

Aidan O'Brien can take the Group One feature on day three in Berkshire while Whoputfiftyinyou, The Antarctic, Ouzo, Balhambar, History and Reach For The Moon may also triumph

Liverpool Echo

Don’t expect Alex Garland to explain what’s happening in ‘Men.’ But here are a few hints

Like the previous films he’s directed — 2014’s “Ex Machina” and 2018’s “Annihilation” — Alex Garland’s new folk-horror film “Men” has a lot going on underneath the surface: themes of gender and toxic masculinity, ancient signs and symbols, literary references to everything from the Bible to Yeats.

Los Angeles Times

With Sinn Féin’s victory, tectonic plates have shifted in Northern Ireland

In Yeats’s words, ‘all changed, changed utterly’

The Guardian - UK

Sebastian Barry: ‘I’m still not over Oliver Twist’

The writer on growing up with Puffin books, his changing attitude to Conrad, and the punk sensibility of Elizabeth Bowen

The Guardian - UK

My Dublin: The city according to Oisín Leahy Furlong of rock band Thumper

"I would go into the Palace Bar and imagine myself in lineage with Kavanagh and Yeats"

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