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 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.

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.

Alluding to Pythagoras’ doctrine of the transmigration of souls and to the popular belief in England that Irish bards were capable of rhyming rats to death. Wait, Irish bards killed rats with ...

“Poems of Repossession – A Celebration of Contemporary Irish Poetry” was centered around Leabhar na hAthghabhála: Poems of Repossession, an anthology of Irish writings put together by Burns Library ...

In Shakespeare’s time, Irish poetry had the power to kill rats The belief that Irish bards could rhyme a rat to death began with the early Celts.

The Irish may not necessarily "do" death better than anyone else, but as this volume makes clear, the history and rituals surrounding death offer a rich and complex area of study, one that has ...

Dolores Stewart writes poetry in Irish and in English and has published collections with the Dedalus Press and with Coisceim. Her most recent collection is CoolChaint, published by Arlen House in ...

Poem of the Day: ‘Night and Death’ Joseph Blanco White wrote some now mostly forgotten poetry, but this sonnet, orginally dedicated to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, should not be allowed to fade away.

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 ...

Paul Durcan, an Irish poet whose droll, sardonic and frequently tender poems about lads in dimly lit pubs, quotidian life in the countryside and the trauma of political violence made him one of ...

A heart-breaking love verse written by slain Irish soldier, Private Seán Rooney to his fiancé has been placed on his gave in County Donegal.