Clare is a Kildare poet originally from Westmeath. She achieved first place in Poetry Ireland /Trócaire unpublished poet competition and the Jonathan Swift poetry awards. Clare has also featured on ...

RELIGION is complicated for Pádraig Ó Tuama. “Sometimes, I try to object to the idea of being a religious poet, and then I ...

A mixed-bag on purpose, the volume spans prose, poetry and drama then looks at the new in an uncertain era of change ...

We are already more than halfway through Irish American heritage month, so if you are still searching for some luck this ...

September would have been Leonard Cohen’s 90th birthday. So a biographical tome from a French university lecturer, who has ...

Antonio Machado was one of Spain’s greatest 20th-century poets and palled around with such literary lights as Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío and Irish author Oscar Wilde. This short poem ...

In this difficult-to-classify book, Ian Sansom – best known for his mystery novels, which I’ve read and enjoyed – rambles through (or beside) one of the great modern poems: ‘September 1, 1939’ by W H ...

The Irish Festival Village is in full swing at St. Ann’s square, celebrating for ten days straight. The annual pop up event is the ultimate gathering spot for the Irish community during the build up ...

The volume subtitled “Poems on the Deirdre Story” can find its roots in her time as an undergraduate at the School of Visual Arts. The required literature courses led her to begin reading on ...

This movement, known as the Gaelic Revival, resulted in the establishment of Irish-language schools and the creation of new literature, poetry, and theater in the language. The Irish language has ...

Following his death today his poem, ‘A message for when I’m gone’, went viral on social media. It reads: “Ireland - it is little or no favours you ever did me or my poems when I was alive.

In "My Ireland," commissioned for Dublin’s St. Patrick’s Day Festival 2017, Irish playwright and poet Stephen James Smith pays tribute to some of the most unique, funny, and oftentimes ...