The name 'Aisling' means 'dream' or 'vision' in Irish and refers to a poetic genre from the 18th century in which Ireland was ...

From a Welsh poet well used to crossing borders comes a sixth collection of ardour and courage. Gwyneth Lewis’s First Rain in ...

Paul is from Belfast and lives in Clonakilty. He was awarded the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize by Carol Ann Duffy. Other poetry ...

What better way to celebrate the famous Irish poet's life than by revisiting his "When All The Others Were Away at Mass," which was named Ireland’s best-loved poem of the past 100 years in RTÉ ...

IrishCentral Contributor Patricia Kileen considers the legacy of Ireland's Mother and Baby Homes and how stories can be ...

LUNENBURG — Storyteller, singer, and harper Kate Chadbourne is excited to celebrate spring and April Poetry Month with traditional Irish poems set to music, stories that extol cleverness and ...

we asked a Boston College English professor who specializes in Irish literature and culture about the poem. The professor said he'd never encountered it and also couldn't find it in a book of ...