Poetry should be celebrated every day of the year, but this World Poetry Day, we'd like to take a moment to introduce you to ...

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Randee Dawn shares how a book of folk tales by W.B. Yeats was a "lightbulb moment" for ...

See how many works of prose and poetry by popular Irish authors you can find in this short scene — and build a reading list ...

Chrysanthemums and wine are featured often in his poetry, which was judged as too simple in his own era and wasn’t appreciated until centuries after his death. Afar o’er life’s turrets and ...

Finding the treasure required hunters to decipher clues connected to a 24-line poem, written by Fenn and included in his memoir. Related: Man Who Found Forrest Fenn's Treasure Comes Forward as He ...

William and his assistants were nonetheless able to build solid pillars of data, mass death ... Irish nationalists for whom the famine stood as the ultimate proof of English perfidy. But in her ...

Then, when it was screened on TV in 1987, a national furore erupted. "FOUR LETTER TV POEM FURY" thundered the front page of one British newspaper, condemning the "cascade of expletives".

I got to know him better when we became neighbours in Clontarf where his poetry sold well in Nolan’s supermarket and where he was loved by all and sundry. Join the Irish Independent WhatsApp ...

President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Micheál Martin were among those who paid tribute to Mr Ingoldsby following his death. The President said that the contribution of Mr Ingoldsby to Irish ...

In a statement on her social media pages on Monday, Parton said that Dean had passed away that same day in Nashville, Tennessee, without specifying a cause of death. “Carl and I spent many ...

IRISH rugby is mourning the sad death of 'legend and gentleman of the game' Dr Bill Mulcahy at the age of 90. He lined out for Ireland on 35 occasions between 1958 and 1965. Nine-times capped ex ...

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.