A three-day conference at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast will bring together experts on the poet.

While Northern Ireland still remains to be a part of the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland is an entity of its own which ...

Andrew is studying for an MA in writing at the University of Galway. His poetry has been published in The Cormorant Broadsheet and The Cormorant Anthology, Scrimshaw, and Ropes Literary Journal. He ...

Fundamentally, trad is popular because it's "very inclusive, egalitarian" and "everyone gets the chance to play it", Jason ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paul Durcan, who has died aged 80, was a prolific and popular poet whose work was often marked by a reaction against ...

Their story has inspired countless retellings and poems and is considered one of ... spellings like Liadan or Leadan, though the traditional Irish spelling retains its poetic flair.

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 ...

From an Irish film industry that has grown dramatically ... the film captures the tail end of traditional rural life in Ireland in the 1980s, before the country belatedly modernized.

“For me, the holiday is best celebrated over a pint or a meal with friends and family in a local pub, accompanied by a live traditional Irish music and dance session,” said Gill ...

There are festivals, traditional music and dancing ... with live music, poetry readings, theatrical monologues, and Irish literature in the form of free copies of the Dublin-based literary ...