IF, AS Farley and Roberts suggest — based on research by an American academic — that being a published poet is more dangerous than being a deep sea diver, then the premise of this book is self evident: Not alone should poets be uninsurable, but their company should be avoided at all costs.

Katie Roiphe is a well-known essayist often appearing in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and other literary journals. 

Marjorie Brennan meets first-time novelist and performance poet Carl Plover

A quick sweep of the archives would show it is perhaps not the greatest surprise that Kieren Fallon has called time on his career in the saddle.

AMERICAN academic Katie Roiphe has a track record of tackling tricky subjects, such as pay inequality and sexual politics. 

Ostatnia continued trainer Willie McCreery’s rich vein of form when foiling trail-blazing top-weight Chiclet in the five-furlong Follow Tipperary On Facebook Handicap in Tipperary yesterday.

It has gone down in racing history as one of the most unlikely yet successful comebacks, and it all started at Tipperary.

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A Dublin media company has been awarded €1,500 after suing a non-profit community theatre group in Scotland for unauthorised use of photographs of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas.

Recent Crawford graduate Billy Dante is one of two Cork artists representing Ireland at a major festival showcasing new talent in Amsterdam, writes Alan O’Riordan

Brian Hayes made a daring move up the inside to deliver a winning challenge on the Shark Hanlon-trained Abolitionist in the featured Belvedere House Gardens & Park Handicap Chase in Kilbbegan last night, second leg of a double for the rider, successful earlier on Aunt Alice for the Bowe family.

Tommy Barker went halfway up the Wild Atlantic Way to dip a toe in the waters of Ennistymon Falls.

Walter de la Mare (with a new introduction by Philip Pullman)

Radical academic will face Brussels veterans in showdown

A Delicate Wildness: The Life and Loves of David Thomson 1914-1988

Writing for radio and making documentaries are doable compared to getting film and TV scripts produced, Dr Jools Gilson, of University College Cork’s School of English tells Colette Sheridan. 

The Edward O’Grady-trained Kitten Rock oozed class as he justified 4/5 favouritism in the listed Irish Independent Hurdle, feature of yesterday’s action in Limerick.

Jezki, Hurricane Fly, Faugheen and More Of That all appear among a star-studded entry for the Bar One Racing Hatton’s Grace Hurdle at Fairyhouse on November 30.

When Carl Plover was a boy his mother read Under Milkwood to him and his new show marks today’s centenary of the Welshman’s birth, says Colette Sheridan

An Australian man had a tropical spider removed from his stomach after it burrowed its way into his body and survived for three days before being removed.

Hannah Ellis has edited a book to mark the centenary of the birth of her grandfather, the Welsh poet and legend Dylan Thomas. Blood is indeed thicker than water, finds an underwhelmed JP O’Malley.

Willie Mullins’ Indevan easily reversed previous Kilbeggan form with Bally Longford in the Benchmark Hospitality Novice Chase at rain-swept Killarney last night.

Filmmaker Simon Hambrook tells Sharon Ní Chonchuir how a hippie upbringing off the Kerry coast has become a source of creativity

Shield rounded off a terrific week for Aidan O’Brien, JP McManus and Mark Walsh when cruising to victory in the Dawn Omega Milk Novice Hurdle, as an attendance in excess of 7,000 topped off a very successful festival.

THEODORA FITZGIBBON was a beautiful, elegant, erudite lady, well travelled.

CHINA: North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un strikes fear into some hearts, but photos of a Chinese street food vendor with a distinct resemblance to the Pyongyang strongman have fuelled online mirth.

Snow prompts mayor to call off Valentine’s

We revert once again to our dog-eared Soundings poetry book in a vain attempt to encapsulate Paul Galvin’s retirement.

Backed into 1/2 favourite, the J P McManus-owned Shield delivered for Aidan and Joseph O’Brien in the two-mile bookigs@dundalkstadium.com Maiden in Dundalk last night.

Not many pilots navigate Dundalk better than Joseph O’Brien and the champion jockey can prove such thinking to be reasonably accurate by guiding Shield to victory in the Happy Christmas To All Our Patrons Maiden on the all-weather tonight.

Beautiful weather and an all-flat card was the menu at Tipperary yesterday, but punters were thin on the ground and only ten bookmakers were on site.

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Vif Monsieur was sensationally awarded the Group 1 Preis von Europa at Cologne yesterday after both winner Meandre and second Empoli were demoted for interference.

Photographs have a curious power to stir the imagination, there is nothing quite like them for communicating a sense of the past.

Flann O’Brien is the pseudonym Brian O’Nolan used as a novelist, but this collection also contains works written as Brian Ó Nualláin (for pieces in Irish), Brother Barnabas, Myles na gCopaleen, Myles na Gopaleen, Lir O’Connor, and Brian O’Nolan.

The Tommy Stack-trained Wannabe Better, clearly improving at a rate of knots, created a mild surprise when taking the featured Listed Vincent O’Brien Ruby Stakes at Killarney last night.

Trading Leather attempts to come out of his stablemate Dawn Approach’s shadow when he lines-up for the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot today.

Courage, hardly the most aptly named horse in training, is the nap choice to get off the mark over flights in the Sean Naughton Auctioneer Maiden Hurdle at Roscommon tonight.