How W.B. Yeats found peace and poetry in a Co Galway tower house Purchased from Lady Gregory and restored by architect William A. Scott, Thoor Ballylee was a happy place for the poet and his family wb yeats • 27 Jun
How W.B. Yeats found peace and poetry in a Co Galway tower house Purchased from Lady Gregory and restored by architect William A. Scott, Thoor Ballylee was a happy place for the poet and his family wb yeats • 27 Jun
10 queer novels, poems and plays as Gaeilge Irish is no longer just the language of saints and scholars, but of queer poets and writers who are sharing their stories Gaeilge • 18 Jun
10 queer novels, poems and plays as Gaeilge Irish is no longer just the language of saints and scholars, but of queer poets and writers who are sharing their stories Gaeilge • 18 Jun
How a medieval Irish poet was exiled because of satire Satire had an important social function in medieval Ireland and poet Conchobhar Ruadh Mac Con Midhe knew how to use it Medieval Ireland • 02 Apr
How a medieval Irish poet was exiled because of satire Satire had an important social function in medieval Ireland and poet Conchobhar Ruadh Mac Con Midhe knew how to use it Medieval Ireland • 02 Apr
You give love a bad name: pop music and Renaissance love poetry Renaissance poetry's repository of themes, images and metaphors have been used by Bon Jovi, Beyonce, Dua Lipa, The Weeknd and many more St Valentines Day • 14 Feb 24
You give love a bad name: pop music and Renaissance love poetry Renaissance poetry's repository of themes, images and metaphors have been used by Bon Jovi, Beyonce, Dua Lipa, The Weeknd and many more St Valentines Day • 14 Feb 24
Why Seamus Heaney's best poems remind us to go slow As I become increasingly aware of my diminishing attention span, I find myself drawn again to Heaney's poems of concentration Seamus Heaney • 02 Oct
Why Seamus Heaney's best poems remind us to go slow As I become increasingly aware of my diminishing attention span, I find myself drawn again to Heaney's poems of concentration Seamus Heaney • 02 Oct
Forget daffodils, Wordsworth also had much to say about trees Trees serving as natural epitaphs again and again in the stories Wordsworth told about the sufferings and hopes of ordinary people William Wordsworth • 04 Nov 22
Forget daffodils, Wordsworth also had much to say about trees Trees serving as natural epitaphs again and again in the stories Wordsworth told about the sufferings and hopes of ordinary people William Wordsworth • 04 Nov 22
Why are politicians so fond of quoting Seamus Heaney? It's not a political speech worth mentioning unless you've dug out a line or two from Heaney to add some gravitas to the occasion Seamus Heaney • 02 Oct
Why are politicians so fond of quoting Seamus Heaney? It's not a political speech worth mentioning unless you've dug out a line or two from Heaney to add some gravitas to the occasion Seamus Heaney • 02 Oct
The modern echoes of an obscure Irish poem about nuclear disaster Can Conleth Ellis' interpretation of nuclear disaster help us to understand our current Covid anxieties? Poetry • 08 Dec 21
The modern echoes of an obscure Irish poem about nuclear disaster Can Conleth Ellis' interpretation of nuclear disaster help us to understand our current Covid anxieties? Poetry • 08 Dec 21
How Austin Clarke's mental health coloured his poetry The favourite poet of generations of Leaving Cert English students was someone with personal experience of mental health issues Culture • 08 Dec 21
How Austin Clarke's mental health coloured his poetry The favourite poet of generations of Leaving Cert English students was someone with personal experience of mental health issues Culture • 08 Dec 21
What do poets have to say about isolation and quarantine? While pandemic-era poetry uncovers the vulnerabilities of humanity, it also reminds us that disasters do end Poetry • 04 Feb 21
What do poets have to say about isolation and quarantine? While pandemic-era poetry uncovers the vulnerabilities of humanity, it also reminds us that disasters do end Poetry • 04 Feb 21
How literary locations help us understand the world we inhabit Places in poems and books can be satisfying at any time, but especially at times like these when we can't actually travel Culture • 04 Sep 20
How literary locations help us understand the world we inhabit Places in poems and books can be satisfying at any time, but especially at times like these when we can't actually travel Culture • 04 Sep 20
Why are we turning to poetry in the middle of a pandemic? Poetry is a reminder of the beauty of life, especially at times of grief and upheaval Poetry • 31 Mar 20
Why are we turning to poetry in the middle of a pandemic? Poetry is a reminder of the beauty of life, especially at times of grief and upheaval Poetry • 31 Mar 20
How to translate an Old English poem into Cork slang Here's how the epic poem Beowulf and its 3,182 alliterative lines is in the process of becoming Boyo-wulf Culture • 24 Feb 20
How to translate an Old English poem into Cork slang Here's how the epic poem Beowulf and its 3,182 alliterative lines is in the process of becoming Boyo-wulf Culture • 24 Feb 20
Icarus, the little Dublin literary magazine which soared The publication was influenced by the little magazine movement which flourished worldwide in the 1960s and 1970s Literature • 26 Nov 19
Icarus, the little Dublin literary magazine which soared The publication was influenced by the little magazine movement which flourished worldwide in the 1960s and 1970s Literature • 26 Nov 19
Keeping the poet: poetry, human rights and the presidency Is a public figure dedicated to poetry more attuned to the moral and philosophical sensibilities of the nation? Poetry • 27 Nov 18
Keeping the poet: poetry, human rights and the presidency Is a public figure dedicated to poetry more attuned to the moral and philosophical sensibilities of the nation? Poetry • 27 Nov 18
What poetry tells us about politics, power and profit Poetry is one of the most important tools we have for deepening our understanding of the context within which we live Poetry • 14 Sep 18
What poetry tells us about politics, power and profit Poetry is one of the most important tools we have for deepening our understanding of the context within which we live Poetry • 14 Sep 18
