Dorcey began her political activism in the 1970s, having returned to Ireland after living in France and England. Having met other queer people abroad, Dorcey was struck by the repression that ...

The poet Paul Durcan died last week. I almost met him. This was at the beginning of the 1970s. ​I was a student at University ...

Kathleen MacMahon, Conor O’Callaghan, Bernard MacLaverty, Enda Wyley, William Wall, Aifric McGlinchey and Martin Doyle pay ...

The Irish Times has teamed up with the five-star Anantara The Marker Hotel, Dublin to give one lucky subscriber the chance to ...

Cork poet Victoria Kennefick has been named as the winner of the 2025 Farmgate Café National Poetry Award ahead of an award ...

John Paul Davies is a former winner of the Penguin Ireland Story Award. He’s been placed in the TU Dublin Story Prize and ...

ONE of Ireland’s most renowned contemporary poets has passed away after six decades working in poetry. Acclaimed poet Paul ...

Rebecca Harte of the Farmgate, winning poet, Victoria Kennefick and Patrick Cotter, director of the Munster Literature Centre ...

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

"We have audiences in so many generations for Irish poetry owes much to him and those others who brought their work around Ireland and abroad," he added. Durcan was a gifted communicator ...

Reading and writing poetry, which is anchored in patterns of words, images, sounds and forms, is particularly well suited for people with autism.

Decades before Christopher Kinahan Sr. fled to Dubai, he dabbled in prison poetry and prose alongside some of Ireland’s most ...