In the Guinness Storehouse on Tuesday night, they celebrated their 25th birthday with a party. And a fine party it was, ...

Seán O’Casey’s daughter Shivaun, a living link to one of our most famous playwrights, has written a memoir that includes ...

An appeal has been made by Dublin author Brendan Lynch for the repatriation of the body of Susan Yeats, mother of WB Yeats, to Sligo from what has been described as a neglected grave in a London ...

Eighty-four years have passed since his death, but there are still ample photographs of Rabindranath Tagore that are not in ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis in May announced Ireland as its 2026 honored country for the annual World Championship Barbecue ...

The Irish singer's festive track was ignored when it was first released 50 years ago – now it's his most recognised song ...

Enigmatic ol’ Ezra Pound. Years after crafting the lines from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley quoted above, he found himself distinctly ...

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

ODM has been facing challenges since the death of its founding leader, Raila Odinga, and Mwongela Mbiti warns that it's on ...

John Carey, the former Merton Professor of English Literature at Oxford who has died aged 91, was one of Britain’s most ­eminent ­literary critics, but one who ­always regarded himself as an outsider ...

The once-private archive of the 19th-century writer Amy Levy offers a glimpse into a literary world where she partied alongside Wilde and WB Yeats ...

I was born into the realm of poetry. As a child, anywhere language got interesting, I was mesmerised — lullabies, street ...