In "My Ireland," commissioned for Dublin’s St. Patrick ... Irish problems and barriers to progress highlighted and the poem does nothing to gloss over any self-questioning and self-analyzing ...

Margaret McCarthy describes “In the Becoming” as a “full circle moment.” The volume subtitled “Poems on the Deirdre Story” ...

Something like scrimshaw — the brief, imagistic poem.” Image Mr. Longley in 2024 at an event in Belfast, Northern Ireland, observing World Poetry Day. “A number of his poems are not much ...

Today’s poem is from Maeve O’Sullivan’s recent new collection, Where All Ladders Start (Alba Publishing) ...

to the power of memory and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The films will show teenagers how contemporary poetry is something alive in the world around us.

In the first episode of their new Close Readings series on political poetry, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ by Andrew Marvell, described by ...