This beautiful poem, "Death is Nothing at All", honoring the departed was adapted by Irish monks and make popular, used often at Irish funerals, the Carmelite monks in Tallow, County Waterford.

Eavan Boland, who expanded the voice of Irish poetry by consciously writing from a female point of view, putting the lives and experiences of women at the center of her poems, died April 27 at her ...

This event, “Poems of Repossession – A Celebration of Contemporary Irish Poetry,” was very much one of these unexpected beauties sometimes found at BC. It can be easy for students to forget about the ...

The belief that Irish bards could rhyme a rat to death began with the early Celts. Incredulous as it seems, the idea that Irish bards could kill rats with poetry was a popular belief in ...

For the second day of a week of war poetry in The New York Sun, guest editor Phil Klay writes:. I memorized “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” during Marine Corps training, shivering in the Quantico ...

His books “Second Travels of an Irish Gentleman in Search of a Religion” (1834) and “Observations on Heresy and Orthodoxy” (1835) formed part of the religious arguments of the time. White also wrote ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet whose verse captured the transcendent power, darkness and humanity of his conflicted homeland, died Aug. 30 at a hospital in Dublin. He was 74. His death was ...