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 Michael Hartnett, a contemporary and friend, wrote a poem in dedication to Durcan in the early 1970s that contained ...

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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 ...

RTÉ Radio 1 is introducing a new series called The Prompt, starting this Sunday at 7.30pm, designed to bring new Irish ...

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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 ...