Mary O’Malley has won the 2025 Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. Her collection The Shark Nursery (Carcanet, 2024) was ...

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

When you sit down to write a will, big things like properties, bank accounts and family heirlooms instantly come to mind, but ...

Chosen by Irish food producers, Blas na hÉireann Producers’ Champions are passionate advocates who champion Irish food and ...

It is serendipitous that the current Uachtarán Chonradh na Gaeilge, Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin, is also a Belfast native, and ...

Season 4 of Jane Seymour's Harry Wild will go out with a bang with a massive finale. Check out the new trailer for the ...

He had previously broken the woman’s nose during an attack and in one of the messages he said: "I will do more than break ...

This month, I reached 80 years of age. I have been sending in letters to the Irish Independent for about 40 of those years, and fortunately some have been printed. Would one be overly optimistic, ...

From pubs to museums to libraries, if you decide to target the literary culture of Europe, the entire continent can be a good ...

Irish firefighter Terence Crosbie, who is due to be sentenced today for raping a woman in Boston in March 2024, made a number ...

This article is used with the permission of Rick Steves’ Europe ( Steves writes European guidebooks, hosts travel shows on ...

The latest presentation in Drama On One's Long Short Story series is a perfectly macabre fiction of close encounters with the ...