And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a whole, circa 1864. Describing an idealistic young landlord’s return home ...

In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...

A ring linked to a 19th century Scottish geologist which was found on a South ... he went on to become a renowned Victorian intellectual who was remembered as the “supreme poet of geology” in 2002 at ...

Some songwriters started writing poetry before segueing into song. Others will even say that most of their songs started as a poem, or inspired by the work of classic poetry, or poets. On Blood on ...

"Salome," a one-act tragedy by the Irish playwright, terrified the Victorian public with its provocative depiction of a ...

The renaming of Trinity College Dublin’s former Berkeley Library after Eavan Boland is “rooted in the determination of staff and students that the building should no longer commemorate a slave ...

Jean-Luc Diquelou first visited Ireland in 1979. The Breton documentary film-maker has regularly returned to the West Coast ...

Louth is known as a land of legends, the most famous, of course, being the Tain Bo Cuailnge or the Cattle Raid of Cooley.

Last week, we talked about the importance of Emma Willard as an author and her relatively unknown sister, Almira, who also wrote some of the earlier science textbooks for girls and boys.

This St. Patrick's Day, expand your palate by sampling some underrated Irish whiskey! These are the best options to try, according to the experts.

In 1880, when Social Security’s baby name lists start, Milo ranked 339th. It slowly dropped, leaving the top thousand in 1966. Now, it's bouncing back.