Eva Bourke is a poet and translator who has published eight collections, the most recent of which is Tattoos, (Dedalus 2024).

The judges are Paul Howard, Madeleine Keane, Cyril McGrane, Sinéad McCorry and Sara Keating. The winner will be revealed ...

From daring contemporary collections to the long-awaited definitive edition from one of the major poets of the 20th century, ...

Happy holidays, and happy reading! All That We Ask of You Is to Always Be Happy by Bridget Bell (Cavankerry) If there has ...

The winner of the PEN Heaney Prize 2025 is Tom Paulin's "Namanlagh." The prize was announced at a ceremony held at the ...

Former President Michael D. Higgins was amongst the winners celebrated at the 20th anniversary of the annual An Post Irish Book awards, held tonight in Dublin.

On December 10, 1963, Greek diplomat and poet Giorgos Seferis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by King Gustav of ...

After decades of teaching girls the structure and subtleties of fiction and poetry at Stuart Country Day School in Princeton, ...

A rare print of William Blake’s The Tyger poem is to go on auction where it is expected to fetch up to £120,000. The print comes from the rare first issue of Blake’s Songs Of Experience, from around ...

Patti Smith is looking back, and coming home. Smith, the 78-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter, was born ...

Renowned broadcaster and historian Professor Sir Simon Schama visited the University of Liverpool to deliver the 2025 Annual Seamus Heaney Lecture earlier this month (November 2025).

INFLUENCER Niamh Cullen was the “jewel” of her late husband’s life, his funeral heard this afternoon. Jamie Gill, 33, was ...