My father made the walls resound He wore his collar the wrong way round.’ The lines above characterise the complicated ...

The roof of the Ulster Hall came as close to lift-off as at any other time in its history on Sunday night with the thunderous ...

If Ulster-Scots poet Anne McMaster doesn’t write for a while, she freely admits to becoming a “wile carnaptious person” to be around.

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

Dr Niall Comer, Lecturer in the School of Irish Language and Literature at Ulster University Magee Campus and also ... Cookstown completed performances of Irish language songs and poetry, with Irish ...

Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted. "FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY" thundered the front page of one British newspaper, condemning the "cascade of expletives".

Announcing the Eighth Annual Fighting Words Poetry Contest! How can poetry be an effective response to current events and the issues impacting our communities? How can journalism and poetry help us ...

Pat Ingoldsby. Photo: Seamus Murphy The details of the celebration of life ceremony for the popular author Pat Ingoldsby have been announced. The legendary poet, writer and broadcaster died on ...

International Women’s Day Poems 2025 is a global event celebrated every year on March 8 to celebrate the love and contributions of women in our lives. Prep your children with these beautiful short ...

Dorothea Mackellar’s poem from 1908, My Country, is famous in Australia despite its outmoded colonial assumptions. Many people are able to quote its lines about ragged mountain ranges ...

What a finish. Just when it looked as if they had blown it, Ulster found a way to win for only the fifth time in the United Rugby Championship this season and how they needed these four points.

Following his death today his poem, ‘A message for when I’m gone’, went viral on social media. It reads: “Ireland - it is little or no favours you ever did me or my poems when I was alive.