PETER QUINN The last time I saw Brendan was in Burke Rehabilitation hospital shortly after Christmas. He’d been hospitalized since August. We ...

When James Joyce's short story collection Dubliners was published on June 15th 1914 it was the end of a long and tortuous struggle for the writer who had finished the last story in the collection, ...

Patricia McCarthy edited Agenda poetry journal for more than 20 years. She won the British National Poetry Competition in 2013. A pamphlet of new poems is due later this year from Dare-Gale Press ...

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 ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

Junior and senior infant students in Scoil Gormain Naofa in Castletown celebrated St Brigid's Day on Friday, January 31. Junior and senior infant students in Scoil Gormain Naofa in Castletown ...

The Irish have a rich tradition of storytelling and poetry, with their language full of colorful and insightful sayings and phrases that reflect their history, culture, and values. Irish sayings ...

It has also produced many extraordinary women poets, including Nuala Ní Domhnaill and Eavan Boland. In collaboration with John J. Burns Library at Boston College, the Charitable Irish Society and the ...

And to really get you ready for all the St. Patrick’s Day traditions this month, we’re sharing other festive Irish phrases. Sláinte—and happy St. Patrick’s Day! Like Erin go Bragh ...

Outgoing US President Joe Biden quoted Irish poet Seamus Heaney's poem "The Cure at Troy" on Monday, January 20 after he attended President Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, DC.