Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...

As one of the very best contemporary writers about ... most distinctive poetry voices. Perhaps most striking about this work is a kind of Dadaist playfulness rarely found in Irish poetry ...

In a patriarchal world, women who refused to conform to traditional roles were viewed as transgressive and subversive ...

A verdict of medical misadventure has been recorded at an inquest into the death of a man who did not ... including the delay in writing the prescription, and the fact the medication was never ...

But his writing ... an Irish Rebel" (1965)—all spoken into a tape recorder—are by no means bad books, but one can see that they are to a great extent “cut-and-paste” jobs. At his death ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

More info Barry McGuigan has paid tribute to John Cooney following his death, describing the 28-year ... McGuigan also shared a photo with Cooney on X, writing: "Such a tragedy to lose this ...

There are a precious few good films about walking and the outdoors. Most are quite bad. Nick Hallissey grabs the popcorn to ...

ROSELEEN Walsh is one of 36 women who were interned in the early 1970s. Her latest book – My Internment – tells the very ...

Modern accounts of Sylvia Plath’s renowned work and legacy seek to highlight the author’s resilience through a decade-long ...