LUNENBURG — Storyteller, singer, and harper Kate Chadbourne is excited to celebrate spring and April Poetry Month with traditional Irish poems set to music, stories that extol cleverness and courage, ...

With a nod to St. Patrick’s Day, this week’s installment celebrates memorable lines from classic Irish poems. In the five ...

Sometimes, in the ocean of Boston College events that occur every single day, there emerges a hidden gem—a diamond in the rough, of sorts. This Tuesday, the John J. Burns Library and the BC Center for ...

Heartwarming love poem from Dublin poet Brian Kirk has been named as Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2018. We are more than embracing our sentimental ...

The Irish have a rich tradition of storytelling and poetry, with their language full of colorful and insightful sayings and phrases that reflect their history, culture, and values. Irish sayings and ...

Listen to a 9th century Irish poem in its original language Dr. Mark Harman recites the 9th century Irish poem 'Pangur Ban' (author unknown) in both Irish and an English translation. Dr. Mark Harman ...

After Athenry by Ronald Carson; The Fall, 1989 by Elena Croitoru-Reed; Delinquent by Juleus Ghunta; and Shazaya by Adam Oliver ...

Michael Longley at the Corrymeela Peace Center in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, in July 2012. (Wikimedia Commons) The death of the poet Michael Longley on Jan. 22, 2025, at the age of 85 did not ...

His finest poem, the eerie Eavan Boland’s Dublin, “a remembered city of wet umbrellas”, summons Boland instantly while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Durcan (2007): his responses to the world were intimately bound up with his own private world - Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty ...

Her work addressed domestic themes seldom found in the male-dominated world of Irish poetry and won her many accolades. By Neil Genzlinger Eavan Boland, who began publishing poetry in the mid-1960s in ...