The poet Michael Hartnett, a contemporary and friend, wrote a poem in dedication to Durcan in the early 1970s that contained ...

Dorcey began her political activism in the 1970s, having returned to Ireland after living in France and England. Having met other queer people abroad, Dorcey was struck by the repression that ...

Kathleen MacMahon, Conor O’Callaghan, Bernard MacLaverty, Enda Wyley, William Wall, Aifric McGlinchey and Martin Doyle pay ...

The poet Paul Durcan died last week. I almost met him. This was at the beginning of the 1970s. ​I was a student at University ...

ONE of Ireland’s most renowned contemporary poets has passed away after six decades working in poetry. Acclaimed poet Paul ...

Tanaiste Simon Harris hailed the Dubliner as "unflinchingly honest, witty and one of Ireland’s best poetic voices" ...

Macdonald's collection Northerny explores the messiness, beauty and pain of growing up in the North. Now in its third year, ...

IrishCentral Contributor Loretto Leary on the 2025 Annual Irish Famine Commemoration Day Ceremony at the Gaelic American Club ...

His daughter Síabhra said her father’s passing was “very sudden” but “he had been unwell in recent years, so he had spent the ...

Decades before Christopher Kinahan Sr. fled to Dubai, he dabbled in prison poetry and prose alongside some of Ireland’s most ...

John Paul Davies is a former winner of the Penguin Ireland Story Award. He’s been placed in the TU Dublin Story Prize and ...

The funeral mass of one of Ireland's most renowned contemporary poets Paul Durcan, who died last week aged 80, has taken ...