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Poet, musician, singer, wit, polemicist, journalist, biographer and letter-writer, Thomas Moore (May 28, 1779 – February 25,1852) was one of the most brilliant figures of the Regency as well as the ...
It was a warm evening in the Bay Area and the crowd in Slainte Oakland welcomed another Irish American Writers & Artists ...
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 inaugural Art Triennial kicks off this Thursday with contemporary public art pieces on display throughout the city for ...
Decades before Christopher Kinahan Sr. fled to Dubai, he dabbled in prison poetry and prose alongside some of Ireland’s most ...
Tanaiste Simon Harris hailed the Dubliner as "unflinchingly honest, witty and one of Ireland’s best poetic voices" ...
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This year I found myself thinking of Irish poets who visited Chicago, such as Yeats, who came here three times. I got the idea by noticing that Sunday was the 75th anniversary of Dylan Thomas ...
Boland’s daughter, Eavan Casey, recalled to CNN that her mother once said, “it would be easier to write a poem about a bomb than a baby!” “There was no place in Irish poetry for women ...
The volume subtitled “Poems on the Deirdre Story” can find its roots in her time as an undergraduate at the School of Visual Arts. The required literature courses led her to begin reading on ...
Irish president Michael D. Higgins called him “a peerless poet” and wrote the following in a public statement: Michael Longley will be recognised as one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ...