A date for this year’s presidential election is yet to be set, and Michael D Higgins still has a few months left in Áras an ...

This Tuesday, the John J. Burns Library and the BC Center for Irish Programs collaborated to bring together a collection of poets for the enjoyment of students and teachers alike. This event, “Poems ...

A new work by Liam Aungier ...

He has translated his own Irish-language poems in a new bilingual selection of poems, Second Sight (Dedalus Press, €12.50/€25), issued by Dedalus following that publishing house's edition of ...

If you listen to just one medieval poem about a cat today, make sure it's this one by Irish scholar Dr. Mark Harman. Plus, learn why the Irish don't actually speak Gaelic.

An Irish rebellion for independence from the British was crushed. And the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918 and 1919 had killed millions. Yeats wrote the poem while his pregnant wife was recovering ...

The album's back cover shows a lone fisherman, the same image gracing the cover of the "Conversations We Never Had" book O'Shea first published 13 years ago, posthumously featuring his dad's poems.

Lin-Manuel Miranda reads Seamus Heaney poem in honour of Biden’s love for the Irish poet ‘My colleagues always kid me about quoting Irish poets all the time. They think I do it because I’m ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet whose verse captured the transcendent power, darkness and humanity of his conflicted homeland, died Aug. 30 at a hospital in Dublin. He was 74. His death was ...

Called by some the best Irish poet since Yeats, Heaney was 74. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney once told NPR that poems are "stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself ...

From poems penned in the lead-up to the 1916 Rising to those written years after, the Rising inspired many powerful words. Pictured: "Birth of the Irish Republic," by Walter Paget, depicting the ...