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, ...

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

The Irish word file - spelled F-I-L-E - means both poet and seer. Well, for Irish poet Padraig O Tuama, seeing the world ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

to listen. And on the rock you chose for your epitaph the inscription will be one nobly-deserved word ‘Poet’. Patricia McCarthy edited Agenda poetry journal for more than 20 years. She won the ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

ZEN gangster Ross Browning has declared that it is “time to let go of hate and negative lows” in his first piece of poetry released in nearly a year. In the fitness fanatic’s latest post he ...

Liz McSkeane is a poet, fiction writer and publisher, winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year for her poetry and the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair for her historical novel Canticle.

The tribunal was set up in 1997 to examine financial payments made to former Irish premier Charlie Haughey and Lowry. Its final report was published in 2011 and contained details of its ...

Addressing the congregation, including Commandant Claire Mortimer, Aide De Camp representing Taoiseach Simon Harris, they began by reading a beautiful poem penned ... French or Irish, or in ...