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 courage, ...
In America, St. Patrick’s Day has somehow transformed into a holiday where people swill green beer while the bar plays the same Dropkick Murphys’ songs over and over again. If you’re young enough to ...
Dream Latitudes is experimental in the best way; not showy or esoteric for the sake of it. Instead, this book creates the ...
Sometimes, in the ocean of Boston College events that occur every single day, there emerges a hidden gem—a diamond in the rough, of sorts. This Tuesday, the John J. Burns Library and the BC Center for ...
Heartwarming love poem from Dublin poet Brian Kirk has been named as Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2018. We are more than embracing our sentimental ...
Andrew Scott, who plays the "hot priest" in the smash-hit comedy Fleabag, recited words from Irish poet Derek Mahon in a recent video. Scott, a native of Dublin, recited "Everything is Going to be All ...
Elizabeth Forrester wants everyone to keep Irish music in their hearts. “My friends and my husband and I spent every St. Patrick’s Day together for 40 or 50 years,” she said. “We’d sing and play the ...
The publication of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” is an occasion to celebrate the Nobel Prize winning poet whose work extends Ireland’s extraordinary literary lineage. Heaney takes his place alongside ...
A local Irish language writer, traditional singer and musician from Gorey is gearing up to officially launch her second poetry book later this month. Éire Ní Fhaoláin, the writer of Puisín Beag an ...
Durcan (2007): his responses to the world were intimately bound up with his own private world - Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images Paul Durcan, who has died aged 80, was a prolific and popular ...