The Irish Literary Times

Irish writer Roddy Doyle clearly loves to talk - and his characters do too, in their own lively, expletive-ridden way. Doyle's new novel "The Guts" brings back Jimmy Rabbitte from the "Barrytown Trilogy".

The poet W. B. Yeats turned often in his imagination to the west of Ireland. The wild place shaped him, and in many ways it was his spiritual home. Philip Coulter visits some of the places that most inspired the great poet.