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, ...

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 ...

We Irish are nothing if not poets. Here is a selection of the best Irish poems and songs that show off Ireland's spectacular way with words and fill us with pride in being Irish.

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 ...

Durcan (2007): his responses to the world were intimately bound up with his own private world - Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images Paul Durcan, who has died aged 80, was a prolific and popular ...

Vendler cast her searching eye on individual poems by great poets in the final work of her life, Inhabit the Poem: Last ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. In a used bookshop some years ago, I chanced upon a small volume called “Irish Fairy ...