Ceasefire,” his most famous poem, invoked the “Iliad” in exploring his country’s sectarian strife. But his work wasn’t ...

Pat Ingoldsby, beloved poet and TV presenter, has died at 82, leaving behind a rich legacy in Irish literature ...

Perhaps most striking about this work is a kind of Dadaist playfulness rarely found in Irish poetry – perhaps closest would be the poems of Paul Durcan, with their absurdist propositions often ...

When it comes to romance, Irish writers are rightly famous. With Valentine’s Day upon us yet again, we decided to give you a flavor of the best love writings from some of our greatest writers ...

Indian spiritual wisdom and its literature have captivated the minds of great Western writers. Many of them have written ...

The legendary poet, writer and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby has died at the age of 82. The popular author, who was a household ...

In March we welcome spring, along with a tapestry of traditional and unexpected celebrations fit for this (hopefully) warmer ...

The simple, yet powerful image in Vyloppilli Sreedhara Menon’s pensive poem Mambazham (1936) of a mother offering a mango to her son, where he had been buried, months after she had reprimanded ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk ... An anonymous 9th-century scholarly Irish monk, exiled by the Vikings to a German abbey, writes of a parallel struggle: his own to capture ...

Boston joins New York and Chicago as a host of the latest Public Art Fund presentation, “Carmen Winant: My Mother and Eye.” ...