Across Lives of the Saints, McCann works to recover that loss, bridging gaps and forming empathic bonds across the demands and negotiations of faith. These are warm, often comradely quarrels, seeking ...

Described as 'Ireland's home for Poetry and Heritage', President Catherine Connolly has opened No. 11 Parnell Square East in ...

A striking new ad by Joe Biden makes reference to his lifelong love of Irish poetry, but the ad goes further – like the Irish poet that he quotes, Nobel Prize laureate Seamus Heaney - it proves that ...

Researchers in Ireland marveled at their computer screen as they flipped through the digitized pages of a medieval book ...

LUNENBURG — Storyteller, singer, and harper Kate Chadbourne is excited to celebrate spring and April Poetry Month with traditional Irish poems set to music, stories that extol cleverness and courage, ...

Ireland has a unique relationship to climate change. The country has always relied on its pastoral landscapes for its ...

In The Irish Times on Saturday, comic book artist and journalist Joe Sacco tells Tadhg Hoey about his latest work and his renewed focus on Gaza. And there is a Q&A with poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin ...

Incredulous as it seems, the idea that Irish bards could kill rats with poetry was a popular belief in Elizabethan England. In Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’ there is a moment when the heroine ...

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 ...

Michael Longley at the Corrymeela Peace Center in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, in July 2012. (Wikimedia Commons) The death of the poet Michael Longley on Jan. 22, 2025, at the age of 85 did not ...