On my first time out as a commercial fisherman, my boat sank, my captain died, and I was left adrift and alone in the Pacific ...

I spent much of that warm week relentlessly watering plants, beginning to worry that only my right arm ... nests in the form of illustrations and poetry, which would be shared at the Belfast ...

Bonnie Raitt is an American blues icon, one with a string of hugely successful albums, a shelf-full of Grammys and ...

He is curator of the Aodh Ruadh Ó Domhnaill Poetry Exchange. Today’s poem is from his recent collection, Savage Acres (Dedalus Press) ...

The tree has found its way into both song and poetry. In the old Irish love song from the late 18th century, An Droighneán Donn, The brown thorn tree or sloe-tree where a young lady expresses her ...

Who is Irish? What makes someone or something Irish? What does it mean to be Irish? And who gets to say who gets to be Irish? Defining Irish identity has long been a bone of contention for the Irish ...

Photo: Denis Doyle/Getty Images For some Irish people it is the ultimate dream – moving to the sunnier climes of Spain to work or to retire to spend balmy evenings enjoying cocktails by the pool ...

Irish people are Europe’s champion savers. Irish savings accounts were supercharged during Covid-19, growing even faster than those elsewhere in the EU. And since the Covid lockdowns ended ...