Francis grew up surrounded by the words of Yeats, Kavanagh, Heaney and Muldoon, hence the rhythm behind the words working ...

"It was definitely the wave of my life." Irish surfer scores one of the biggest waves ever ridden on the Emerald Isle.

The 31st annual Yeats Winter School will run at the Sligo Park Hotel from January 23-25. The event is an opportunity for those with a general interest in the work of W.B. Yeats to meet with academics, ...

Bowie’s Irish roots run very deep. Born David Jones in 1947, Bowie’s mother’s maiden name was Peggy Burns. Like so many others in post-Famine Ireland, Peggy Burns’ paternal grandparents were Irish ...

Century IrelandTHE MCMULLEN MUSEUM OF ART AT BOSTON COLLEGE PRESENTS COLLABORATING IN CONFLICT: THE YEATS FAMILY AND THE ...

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Contemporary Irish art now sits at the heart of County Fermanagh's Lough Erne Resort, following the launch of a striking new ...

A faultless lyric from 1887 mourns what seems to be repressed gay love ...

It is the translation by the octogenarian Australian poet Geoffrey Lehmann of a group of poems by Rilke, by common consent ...

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The publication of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” is an occasion to celebrate the Nobel Prize winning poet whose work extends Ireland’s extraordinary literary lineage. Heaney takes his place alongside ...

It is little over 12 years since Ireland lost its greatest ever poet, and at last Seamus Heaney's impressive body of creative work has been assembled for a new (and rather definitive) collected volume ...