He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and ... century and grafted onto the highly spiritualized love poetry of the Gaelic bardic order. In the Irish version of courtly love ...

The name is derived from the Gaelic name Brighid, which means “exalted one” or “the high one." Brigid was a goddess in ancient Irish mythology, known for her association with poetry ...

Our Irish Studies courses range from the poetry of Seamus Heaney to the politics of contested parades and language rights in today's Northern Ireland; from the literature of the Medieval sagas and the ...

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

Perhaps most striking about this work is a kind of Dadaist playfulness rarely found in Irish poetry – perhaps closest would be the poems of Paul Durcan, with their absurdist propositions often ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk ... An anonymous 9th-century scholarly Irish monk, exiled by the Vikings to a German abbey, writes of a parallel struggle: his own to capture ...

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, ...

Her poems have been published by OFI Press, Obsessed With Pipework, Skylight47, Boyne Berries, Saolta Arts and broadcast on RTÉ radio. Nollaig is working towards a first collection. Rowan’s ...

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." ...

and a large amount of Gaelic poetry. Some of the verse was by well-known figures, such as Jacobite poet Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair. Other works were found to have been composed by Gaelic bards ...

Gardaí in Wexford have attracted some attention this Valentine’s day by sharing a poem they wrote… about speeding. The poem has received top reviews for creativity, while also generating a ...

The 24-year-old from Co Cork died on Sunday from injuries sustained in a fall at Thurles Racecourse on February 6.