Sunday Miscellany: Remembering Michael Longley, by Olivia O'Leary The music and humanity of language, a gift from the great poet to a young and nervous journalist in 1970's Belfast Sunday Miscellany • 03 Mar
Sunday Miscellany: Remembering Michael Longley, by Olivia O'Leary The music and humanity of language, a gift from the great poet to a young and nervous journalist in 1970's Belfast Sunday Miscellany • 03 Mar
Book Of The Week: Poet Tim MacGabhann's ode to Rory Gallagher In an era when the very craft of writing looks in danger of either appeasing the lowest common denominator or appealing to preset tastes determined by algorithms... Book Of The Week • 02 Mar
Book Of The Week: Poet Tim MacGabhann's ode to Rory Gallagher In an era when the very craft of writing looks in danger of either appeasing the lowest common denominator or appealing to preset tastes determined by algorithms... Book Of The Week • 02 Mar
Book Of The Week: Matthew Rice's remarkable poems about work Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Book Of The Week • 28 Feb
Book Of The Week: Matthew Rice's remarkable poems about work Set during a single twelve-hour night shift in a factory, plastic is a book-length poem exploring the life of the industrial worker turned poet. Book Of The Week • 28 Feb
Weather still getting you down? Give the poetry of spring a go In the unremitting gloom of the first six weeks of this year, you might have been under the illusion that spring was on hold. Poetry • 26 Feb
Weather still getting you down? Give the poetry of spring a go In the unremitting gloom of the first six weeks of this year, you might have been under the illusion that spring was on hold. Poetry • 26 Feb
First Fortnight: Everybody is a poem - Jan Brierton has a word The First Fortnight mental health arts and festival celebrates Nollaig na mBan (Women's Christmas or Little Christmas) on January 6th, 2026 with an evening of music, poetry and fun... First Fortnight • 30 Dec 25
First Fortnight: Everybody is a poem - Jan Brierton has a word The First Fortnight mental health arts and festival celebrates Nollaig na mBan (Women's Christmas or Little Christmas) on January 6th, 2026 with an evening of music, poetry and fun... First Fortnight • 30 Dec 25
Sunday Miscellany: Meeting the Poet, by Oliver Sears A belated encounter with the great Derek Mahon in Kinsale Sunday Miscellany • 02 Dec 25
Sunday Miscellany: Meeting the Poet, by Oliver Sears A belated encounter with the great Derek Mahon in Kinsale Sunday Miscellany • 02 Dec 25
Annemarie Ní Churreáin's hymn to all the restless girls Acclaimed poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin introduces her new collection Hymn to All the Restless Girls. Books • 19 Nov 25
Annemarie Ní Churreáin's hymn to all the restless girls Acclaimed poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin introduces her new collection Hymn to All the Restless Girls. Books • 19 Nov 25
Why Seamus Heaney remains Ireland's greatest poet It is little over 12 years since Ireland lost a man considered by many its greatest ever poet Books • 10 Oct 25
Why Seamus Heaney remains Ireland's greatest poet It is little over 12 years since Ireland lost a man considered by many its greatest ever poet Books • 10 Oct 25
New Heaney collection contains 25 unpublished poems Previously unpublished poems by Seamus Heaney have been included in a new collection of his work available from today. Poetry • 09 Oct 25
New Heaney collection contains 25 unpublished poems Previously unpublished poems by Seamus Heaney have been included in a new collection of his work available from today. Poetry • 09 Oct 25
Seamus Heaney celebrated - an Irish poetry legend in focus RTÉ Culture remembers a giant of Irish literature Poetry • 06 Oct 25
Seamus Heaney celebrated - an Irish poetry legend in focus RTÉ Culture remembers a giant of Irish literature Poetry • 06 Oct 25
Sunday Miscellany remembers poet Michael Hartnett Memories of when he first became aware of 'the poet' Sunday Miscellany • 30 Sep 25
Sunday Miscellany remembers poet Michael Hartnett Memories of when he first became aware of 'the poet' Sunday Miscellany • 30 Sep 25
Book Of The Week: New Arcana by Jessica Traynor One of the most remarkable things about Jessica Traynor's New Arcana is how successfully it manages to evoke the expansive honesty at the heart of John Berryman's 1969 masterwork The Dream Songs. Book Of The Week • 29 Sep 25
Book Of The Week: New Arcana by Jessica Traynor One of the most remarkable things about Jessica Traynor's New Arcana is how successfully it manages to evoke the expansive honesty at the heart of John Berryman's 1969 masterwork The Dream Songs. Book Of The Week • 29 Sep 25
13 Ways of Looking at Ghosts by Róisín Leggett Bohan For Culture Night 2025, Guest Editor Belinda McKeon has curated a number of works from emerging creative talents of note... Culture Night 2025 • 19 Sep 25
13 Ways of Looking at Ghosts by Róisín Leggett Bohan For Culture Night 2025, Guest Editor Belinda McKeon has curated a number of works from emerging creative talents of note... Culture Night 2025 • 19 Sep 25
Searching for Grandfather - a poem by by Rafael Mendes For Culture Night 2025, Guest Editor Belinda McKeon has curated a number of works from emerging creative talents Culture Night 2025 • 19 Sep 25
Searching for Grandfather - a poem by by Rafael Mendes For Culture Night 2025, Guest Editor Belinda McKeon has curated a number of works from emerging creative talents Culture Night 2025 • 19 Sep 25
Chic to be Sad: Molly Twomey's poetry from the ashes 'I'll never write anything worth reading again', I think as I shackle myself to a desk, picking at my skin and calling myself names. Books • 20 Aug 25
Chic to be Sad: Molly Twomey's poetry from the ashes 'I'll never write anything worth reading again', I think as I shackle myself to a desk, picking at my skin and calling myself names. Books • 20 Aug 25
Irish-language poet Derry O'Sullivan dies in Paris Irish-language poet Derry O'Sullivan has died in Paris aged 81. Originally from west Cork, he had been living in Paris for many years. Ireland • 18 Aug 25
Irish-language poet Derry O'Sullivan dies in Paris Irish-language poet Derry O'Sullivan has died in Paris aged 81. Originally from west Cork, he had been living in Paris for many years. Ireland • 18 Aug 25
Poem Of The Week: During the Genocide by Jessica Traynor I am a bad, impatient mother / I shout at my kids, push them away, because every night when I dream Poem Of The Week • 27 Jul 25
Poem Of The Week: During the Genocide by Jessica Traynor I am a bad, impatient mother / I shout at my kids, push them away, because every night when I dream Poem Of The Week • 27 Jul 25
President Higgins Releases first video from upcoming debut album The debut video from President Michael D. Higgins' forthcoming spoken word album Against All Certainty has been released. Music • 25 Jul 25
President Higgins Releases first video from upcoming debut album The debut video from President Michael D. Higgins' forthcoming spoken word album Against All Certainty has been released. Music • 25 Jul 25
ChatGPT vs. the poet: Can AI Imitate Rita Ann Higgins? The Brendan O'Connor Show on RTÉ Radio 1 were joined by celebrated poet Rita Ann Higgins and entrepreneur and journalist, Mark Little for a rather fascinating experiment. Poetry • 14 Jul 25
ChatGPT vs. the poet: Can AI Imitate Rita Ann Higgins? The Brendan O'Connor Show on RTÉ Radio 1 were joined by celebrated poet Rita Ann Higgins and entrepreneur and journalist, Mark Little for a rather fascinating experiment. Poetry • 14 Jul 25
Vona Groarke announced as new Ireland Professor of Poetry One of the most prestigious positions in poetry, the Ireland Professor of Poetry, was today announced by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust. Poetry • 09 Jul 25
Vona Groarke announced as new Ireland Professor of Poetry One of the most prestigious positions in poetry, the Ireland Professor of Poetry, was today announced by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust. Poetry • 09 Jul 25
The Ethics Of Cats - Alice Kinsella's new poems The Ethics of Cats navigates the tensions between domesticity and wildness, history and the self... Poetry • 04 Jul 25
The Ethics Of Cats - Alice Kinsella's new poems The Ethics of Cats navigates the tensions between domesticity and wildness, history and the self... Poetry • 04 Jul 25
Sunday Miscellany: Postscript and The Map - poems by Marie Howe On the things we take from this earthen home, and navigating in a directionless world; two works from the 2025 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sunday Miscellany • 02 Jul 25
Sunday Miscellany: Postscript and The Map - poems by Marie Howe On the things we take from this earthen home, and navigating in a directionless world; two works from the 2025 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sunday Miscellany • 02 Jul 25
Seamus Heaney's North at 50 - a poetry masterpiece revisited North was Seamus Heaney's fourth poetry collection – he was in his mid-30s when it came out, living in Glanmore, Co. Wicklow. Books • 26 Jun 25
Seamus Heaney's North at 50 - a poetry masterpiece revisited North was Seamus Heaney's fourth poetry collection – he was in his mid-30s when it came out, living in Glanmore, Co. Wicklow. Books • 26 Jun 25
