Some people may think that Irish poetry is primarily about politics and patriotism, but the lyric voice is ever-present.

As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's ...

Why do we turn to poetry? Ask a hundred people and you'll get a hundred answers. Still, the underlying thread of truth is ...

Paul is from Belfast and lives in Clonakilty. He was awarded the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize by Carol Ann Duffy. Other poetry awards include first prizes in The Moth International, the Nottingham Open ...

Leeds Irish Health and Homes (LIHH) is an organisation serving the various needs of the city’s Irish community since 1996, ...

Seamus Heaney was born on this day, April 13, 1939, in Castledawson in Co Derry. What better way to celebrate the famous Irish poet's life than by revisiting his "When All The Others Were Away at ...

A new work by ...

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 ...

Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce the recipients of the Bright Ideas bursary for Poetry Day Ireland 2025.

Ireland is being represented at the multilingual Printemps des Poètes-Luxembourg Poetry Festival for the first time by Wicklow poet Jane Clarke. Born in 1961, Jane grew up on a farm in the west of ...

Celebrating the theme "May Day", this year’s programme brings together poets, communities, artists, and activists in a vibrant celebration ...