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 ...

Celtic mythology is comprised of legends and lore from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, the Isle of Man, Cornwall, and Brittany.

Dozens of Gaelic manuscripts have been found and returned to the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh after being missing for more than 50 years. Police investigated the disappearance of the 56 ...

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." ...

Dr Fiona Murphy says traditions like The Biddy on 1 February remind us of the threads that hold us together as a people.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...