The gray suburban fringes of Cork’s Northside region are gradually colored with hope in “Christy,” an old-fashioned coming-of ...

The launch of the new anthology by Bray writer’s group, Sea Scribes, took place on Saturday, July 5, in a packed Town Hall as attendees were captivated by the writers involved who read from the new ...

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 ...

Author, poet, and philosopher David Whyte believes in poetry. Specifically, he believes in its ability to rekindle emotions often buried or denied — from anguish and death, to joy and wonderment.

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.

January 23, 2025 at 2:21pm GMT Belfast-born writer Michael Longley has been remembered as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced” following his death aged 85. Tributes have ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

Martine McCutcheon shared a moving poem on living and loving life after her younger brother LJ's death.