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 ...

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

Journey through time to discover the most famous poets who ever lived! Celebrate these literary masters with us.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

In fact, as Juliet Rix shows in her new book, the capital now has a remarkable and reassuring array of statues of women. Here ...