In 1912, Arthur Griffith, newspaper editor and politician & founder of Sinn Féin, the republican party, worked with Jews in ...

When Ephriam David Tyler died in 1969 at age 85, he had written and published his way through three works of poetry that ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Closely aligned to the theme of romantic love is that of desire, and across the centuries poets have written about the ...

From classic names like Liam and Cillian to uncommon names like Oisín and Tadhg, these top Irish baby boy names are making ...

“For a long time,” writes Kathleen Jamie in her afterword to The Keelie Hawk (Picador £12.99), “I’ve wanted to write a suite ...

The Irish word file - spelled ... So a ghost mass for me is using structure and trying to say you can come here, whatever you ...

Irish President Michael D Higgins arrives for ... the Feltrinelli International Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Prize. He was made a CBE in 2010 and was awarded the freedom of Belfast.

Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard. President of Ireland Michael D Higgins was among mourners who joined Longley’s ...

He explained how gang members use the motor trade to ‘layer’ the money they have received from criminal activity in an attempt to legitimise the source of their cash. An Audi A6 luxury seized by CAB.

“She is no longer me and I am no longer her / but she stares back at me when I look in the mirror / searching for something she hopes to recover.” Many of the poems here, newly translated from ...