Vona Groarke will be the 10th Ireland Professor of Poetry, taking over from Prof Paul Muldoon. The position will run from ...

Hence also “Staggering July” and “the Yellow month”. The latter was Buímhís in Irish, which an 1830s diarist of rural ...

IrishCentral Contributor Patricia Killeen looks at John Buckley McQuaid's career before he performs at the Irish Cultural ...

Sophie Clarke picks out a trio of unmissable events from this year’s cross-border collaboration between Belfast’s Duncairn ...

Fanning, who worked as a district midwife and nurse in Co Kerry and then in Co Dublin for 48 years in the first half of the ...

There is no charge to compete or watch the Belmar Sandcastle Contest, and admission to 18th Avenue beach will be free during ...

When people look back on this trilogy, they will find it all in a single hour. That’s how long Serrano and Taylor needed to ...

Bear in mind these dead, I can find no plainer words,’ wrote the Northern Irish poet John Hewitt reflecting on the Troubles’s ...

All this week we're announcing the names of the writers who took part in this year's Voices group. Today meet the 12 writers ...

Importantly, over 30 million Americans are of Irish ancestry. The relationship particularly hits home for me, because both of my mother’s parents, whom I vividly remember, immigrated here from Ireland ...

A consideration moving forward is not only how we choose to view and celebrate the past, but also how we honour who we are ...

There are over 25,000 different comedy shows at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Well, no. Actually there are only ...