I’m a first-generation Dubliner; my parents hailed from the country. When I was young, myself and my friends sometimes had visitors from America; first or second-generation Americans or relatives who ...

It’s unusual, if not rare, for a work by an acclaimed poet to appear in the pages of a national newspaper, only for it to vanish without trace, then resurface, 18 years later, and go on to become one ...

Seamus Heaney was born on this day, April 13, 1939, in Castledawson in Co Derry. What better way to celebrate the famous Irish poet's life than by revisiting his "When All The Others Were Away at Mass ...

The great and good of the poetry world came together at the Wallace Collection in London last Monday (19th January) for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize award ceremony. Taking the honours from the 177 ...