Person: Billy Ramsell

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Hurling and poetry: Ó Bhéal’s word-clash of the ash

IF EVER there was a field sport so poetic that words can only but strive to do it justice, it is hurling and its proponents, the Cúchulains of Croker, modern representation of our mythical heroes.

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LUNCHTIME BULLETIN: Man 'with serious stab wounds' dies in Offaly; Charles Manson dies aged 83

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MORNING BULLETIN: Main parties rule out governing with Sinn Féin; Charles Manson dies aged 83

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Cork photographer in the frame for top prize

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FIRST THOUGHTS: Irish poets on the origins of their work

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Alannah Hopkin gives a musical salute to Cork in On the Banks

City in song and verse - new anthology shows off the best of Cork writing

From Rory Gallagher to Frank O’Connor, there’s an eclectic mix in a new anthology of Cork writings, says Colette Sheridan

Tue, 27 Sep, 2016

Poetry and sport: Well versed in a game of inches and meters

A few years ago, someone suggested to me that sportswriters would be better advised to read poetry, specifically lyric poetry, rather than some of those vast, mannered chunks of American sportswriting that get cheered from the rafters (with relief, maybe, when the reader gets to the end).

Mon, 04 Jan, 2016

Munster poetry is finding its rhythm

An anthology of poets who were born in the province after 1960 is the first since the late Sean Dunne’s 1985 guide, says Colette Sheridan

Wed, 11 Feb, 2015

Laureate of yearning

Van Morisson’s incantations and repetitions, admonitions, yearnings and folk-music prove that people walked this earth yearning for a heaven elsewhere. Thomas McCarthy on a selection of Morisson’s lyrics.

Sat, 18 Oct, 2014

The Tuesday Poem: An Otter

Christmas day, 4 o’clock, Stumps of cloud, like yellowing tower blocks, Lean over The failing glimmer of Christmas lights And the quays, that are utterly empty,

Tue, 17 Dec, 2013

Literary talents in artful black and white

John Minihan marks Culture Night and Cork International Short Story festival with illuminating photos, Tina O’Sullivan reports

Wed, 12 Sep, 2012