This year I found myself thinking of Irish poets who visited Chicago ... playwright or a poet when he visited Chicago in 1882 but a famous personage, “the great esthete,” giving a national ...

Joe Biden has quoted the famous Irish poets WB Yeats during his final speech at the UN General Assembly in New York. In his farewell address to delegates on Tuesday, the US President urged the ...

the mystic poet…” In making Hyde’s play “the raison d’être for a garden party”, Butler thought, Moore had given unstoppable impetus to the cause. “The Irish language movement is ...

Daljit Nagra selects No Egos No Divas: New Poets in Irish. Presented by poet and academic Louis de Paor. From 2019. Show more Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects No ...

By exploring the lives, opinions and deaths of a variety of famous poets ... Louis MacNeice 6. Irish poet and playwright Louis MacNeice was also a BBC Radio producer, and met his end after ...

This week’s Title Search puzzle highlights prose and poetry by Irish authors. The titles of 13 such books are hidden below within an unrelated text passage. As you read along, tap or click the ...

“There was no place in Irish poetry for women,” Boland’s friend, poet and novelist Theo Dorgan, told CNN. Referencing Boland’s seminal 1982 book “Night Feed,” he said, “a lot of ...