LIAM Ó Maonlaí fretted it wouldn’t work. He loves Irish but, when asked to be involved in a project translating the work of Bob Marley into the language, was immediately wary. Could Marley’s distinctive marriage of the spiritual and the earthy survive conversion to an alien tongue? Ó Maonlaí was concerned the answer might be in the negative.

Cork poet Louis de Paor tells Alan O’Riordan how he thinks some of the richness of our cultural heritage can get lost in translation

THE President of the Teachers’ Union of Ireland, Gerard Craughwell, says he doesn’t think we should “experiment” with our children’s future but I don’t know how we can make progress if we don’t.

THE Nepalese boy looks shocked but he has a very big ice-cream.

Works from a legendary Pakistani poet have been translated into the Irish language for a new book launched today.

THE first maths papers faced Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate candidates in hundreds of schools around the country yesterday morning.

A rare collection of Dracula-related books is to be handed over to Dublin City Library, it emerged today.

Ireland's top writers have come together to voice their opposition to the war through the power of the pen.