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Congratulations to Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, who has been appointed Laureate for Irish Fiction 2025-2028 by the Arts Council. She follows in the distinguished footsteps of Colm Tóibín, Sebastian Barry, and ...
More than 250 Influential Women Award finalists were announced this year by the nonprofit that seeks to recognize the ...
Her heritage, as a scion of Boston Brahmins and the mother of biracial children, shaped a discursive verse style that veiled ...
Catalan filmmaker Pere Vilà Barceló talks about rape in “When a River Becomes the Sea.” But he never, ever intended to show ...
The Key to Everything,” by Margaret A. Brucia, is the first biography of May Swenson, a poet who fashioned her own unique ...
GIFC is a gathering of people - artists, activists, neighbours and visitors - coming together in the spirit of anti-racism, ...
As documented in Lucy Collins' Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Memory and Estrangement (2015). Limerick writers have made and continue to make a substantial contribution to Irish literature.
Paul Durcan, Irish Poet of Tortured and Tender Souls, Is Dead at 80 He survived electroshock treatments and the threat of lobotomy to become one of Ireland’s most popular poets.
In recognition of International Women’s Day, we wanted to highlight ten important female figures in Ireland.
As Irish and Northern Irish women poets campaign for greater recognition in their home country, we discuss the gender battle currently taking place in Irish literature, with campaign co-founder ...
One small island, one giant treasure trove of artistic talent. The island of Ireland has had four Nobel Prize laureates in Literature: William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, and ...