This is essential for an understanding of the sometimes bleak portrait of Irish people and places that Böll paints. He had read Irish writers, and translated some of them into German: Swift, Frank O’Connor, Brendan Behan. Arriving on Achill Island from...

PEARSE Hutchinson, who has died aged 84 of peneumonia, was a Glasgow-born poet, broadcaster and translator. A friend of fellow poet and author Brendan Behan, he regarded himself as "a man of languages rather than nations".

Who would have thought he was not only fluent in French and Spanish but had a Ph. D. from the Sorbonne, could quote passages of James Joyce (from Finnegans Wake, no less), knew Samuel Beckett (whom he introduced to America), Jean-Paul Sartre, Eugene...

In a country where the cultural imprint of the ancient Muisca people is ever present, it is unsurprising that Yeats’s engagement with Celtic Ireland should emerge as a topic of interest among the Bogotános who gathered to view the exhibition. By sheer...

And the Brittas Park side were once again the Ballard side's unfortunate victims this time as they fell to a 0-3 defeat.Paddy Byrne struck twice with Brendan Behan also on target for the visitors as they climbed to ninth place, overtaking Bray side...

Walk into any genuine pub in town, and you’re bound to see that famous poster of Irish literary heroes on the wall. It’s not idle boastfulness: Dublin can claim four Nobel laureates — George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. ...