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 ...

Soundings was dumped off the Leaving Cert curriculum in 2000, but was something lost in the move to make the syllabus more diverse and contemporary?

Kate Rose's traditional Irish fiddle background is blended with Armand Ramirez's world rhythms in their duo, Wild World Irish ...

A new publication gives insights into the scope of intelligence gathering by both Irish and British authorities in Northern ...

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 ...

Tanaiste Simon Harris hailed the Dubliner as "unflinchingly honest, witty and one of Ireland’s best poetic voices" ...

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.