Storyteller, singer, and harper Kate Chadbourne is excited to celebrate spring and April Poetry Month with traditional Irish ...

Personal tragedy and self-doubt almost robbed Aoife Dunne of her childhood dream, but she overcame her fears and discovered a ...

Looking for a good movie to watch tonight? Right now, you can stream a variety of Irish screen classics old and new via the ...

trees that lined roads now lying on their sides. The librarian, my friend, speaks of water, light, of days given to keeping her mother warm. The children don’t know who the poet is. They’ll ...

The poem Ionmhain taise a-tá i nDoire on Brian Óg's limbs, in the 17th-century manuscript known as the Book of the O’Conor Don We may surmise that Conchobhar Ruadh was in the right (if not ...

Sligo County Council marked Seachtain na Gaeilge 2025 with an array of events across the county. Seachtain na Gaeilge le Energia which runs annually from 1-17th March is one of the biggest ...

The perseverance of the Irish people in maintaining their language, history and values created a world of oral tradition ...

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Poetry Ireland announces twelve poems to be showcased across the Iarnród Éireann (Irish Rail) network and in libraries nationwide as part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025. Following an open call to respond ...

Irish author John McGahern's final novel becomes a delicately observed tone poem about the everyday moments that make up a ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the natural world and the human condition?