Oscar Wilde quipped, Seamus Heaney drank, W.B. Yeats shopped
On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...
Gnomes of Donegal - Frank McNally on William Allingham’s peculiar brand of Irishness
And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a ...
Decades before Irish were Chicago political royalty, they lived in a ramshackle slum called Kilgubbin
In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name ...
17 celebrities you probably didn't know were Irish
Stars including Gwen Stefani, Barack Obama, and Robert De Niro all have Irish ancestors.
The Best Vintage Stores in Dublin
From curated luxury fashion, to Y2K gems, and Western affairs: Ireland’s fairest city houses some of the island’s best ...
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Wild West Coast: Breton filmmaker's lifelong love for Ireland
Jean-Luc Diquelou first visited Ireland in 1979. The Breton documentary film-maker has regularly returned to the West Coast ...
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Park City Opera goes all Irish on St. Patrick’s Day at Jordenelle
The musical program featured Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs, which features 10 poems by Irish monks from the ninth to 13th ...
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17 celebrities you probably didn't know were Irish
Her stage name, Wilde, was even chosen because of the Irish poet Oscar Wilde ... rather than his more famous Italian ones. Alicia Keys may also be a little bit Irish. Singing sensation Keys ...
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St Patrick's Day revellers in shock at 'criminal' price of a pint of Guinness in famous Dublin pub
A visitor to the Oliver St John Gogartys pub, which is named after the famous Irish poet of the same name, was taken aback at their total after ordering a round of drinks. An 'outrageous' receipt ...