Saint Brigid's day is celebrated on February 1st each year, and baby girls born during the month are often given her name, ...

Tiernan’s guests on Saturday included poet Lemn Sissay, musician Maireád Ní Mhaonaigh and FTD brothers Jordan and Cian Adams ...

Applications for the annual Tremont Writers Conference will be accepted through May 15. The conference will be held Oct.

Braving the frigid wind tunnels in midtown Manhattan on Saturday, Feb. 1, participants heading to this annual celebration at ...

The most powerful goddess among the Tuatha dé Danaan, the Morrigan is a complex and often misunderstood figure from Irish myth. One woman or several, bearing either a name or a title (the meaning of ...

When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Michael Longley, the last survivor of a remarkable triumvirate of Northern Irish poets that included Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon, who was celebrated for the meditative beauty of his compact lyrics, ...

Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

The International Poetry Forum returns after a 14-year hiatus to revive the Steel City’s role in showcasing renowned writers.

Hungarian-born British poet George Szirtes has been awarded His Majesty’s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2024 by the United ...

Ireland's most reviewed destinations on Google Maps all boast four stars or more - how many have you visited? Ireland's ...