The best poems about sport are not usually about success, rather they approach sport from alternative perspectives.

Durcan’s funeral continued that ancient tradition, Fr Tonge said. He was Ireland’s poet, but he was also Ringsend’s and a ...

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 ...

It was a warm evening in the Bay Area and the crowd in Slainte Oakland welcomed another Irish American Writers & Artists ...

The funeral mass of one of Ireland's most renowned contemporary poets Paul Durcan, who died last week aged 80, has taken ...

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 ...

IrishCentral Contributor Patrick 'Paddy' Gannon on Ireland's blind harper Turlough O'Carolan and his ties to Co Leitrim.

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

Some of Durcan's most iconic poems are A Snail in my Prime, Crazy About Women, Greetings to Our Friends in Brazil and Cries ...