Fail Again Fail Even Better – The Struggles of an Obscure Irish Poet, by Karl MacDermott, published by Troubador Publishing, ...

When Prince Charles paid a visit to Cork in Ireland in 2018, he quoted a poem by celebrated Irish poet Pádraig ” Tuama, who grew up in the city. When ” Tuama called his parents to tell them the ...

Tickets are now on sale at the Irish Repertory Theatre in New York for A Touch of the Poet, the tragic tale about the Irish immigrant experience. Irish Repertory Theatre, the award-winning ...

While living in Belfast during the early 1950s, Stephen said Heaney published some poems under the penname Incertus - which ...

The Irish word file - spelled F-I-L-E - means both poet and seer. Well, for Irish poet Padraig O Tuama, seeing the world through poetry is a calling, whether that's his own poetry or someone else's.

A recent Georgetown graduate curated a new exhibition in Lauinger Library on renowned Irish poet Paul Muldoon. Chris Kenny’s (GRD ’23) “Paul Muldoon: The Joseph M. Hassett Collection,” which lies ...

Longley resisted the temptation ‘to write the poem of the latest [terrorist] atrocity. We knew there was no point in versifying opinion’ - Irish Eye/Alamy Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a ...

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 ...

For some, St. Patrick’s Day is a time to swill green beer and listen to the Pogues, Cranberries or Dropkick Murphy songs. And if you don’t mind the ensuing hangover, it might be fun, but there are ...

Composer Osvaldo Golijov’s newest composition was inspired by a single line by the late Irish Nobel Prize laureate, Seamus Heaney: “Sing yourself to where the singing comes from.” The piece had its ...

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