Collected in a landmark new edition, the late Irish writer’s work is attuned to wonder, replete with humanity and rooted in ...

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

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

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William Butler Yeats won a Nobel Prize for his Irish-themed poems and plays. Most inventive of all, perhaps, was James Joyce, who captured literary lightning in a bottle when he profiled Dublin’s ...

The day after the Ides of March in the year of Our Lord 2020, I started a new (to me) routine: For an hour each afternoon, my husband took the kids to play outside, while I sat at the kitchen island, ...

For centuries, poets have turned to autumn as a mirror for the human condition, a season oscillating between abundance and ...

More than forty years ago, Brian P. Burns made a bet with himself: “Isn’t it possible that the Irish could be just as brilliant in the visual arts as they have been in music and literature?” The Brian ...