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 ...

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 ...

Life’s passion: Peggy Montes, 88, carries a passion for empowering women and educating children through the museum she ...

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 ...

Oxford University professor Avi Shlaim tells The Irish News why “Ireland is the natural friend of any anti-colonial struggle” ...

Jones’s roaring debut novel, first published in 1983, is a tour of the bad ol’ days of New York City and Detroit, with a ...

The musical program featured Samuel Barber's Hermit Songs, which features 10 poems by Irish monks from the ninth to 13th ...

From curated luxury fashion, to Y2K gems, and Western affairs: Ireland’s fairest city houses some of the island’s best ...

dancing to a fiddler’s music with a barefoot girl — an experience that prompted him to quote Irish poet John Francis Waller: “Search the world all around, from the sky to the ground ...

According to neighborhood lore recounted in the Tribune, Mayor Walter Gurnee had campaigned there in the early 1850s, dancing to a fiddler’s music with a barefoot girl — an experience that prompted ...

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 ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...