For The Atlantic’s January cover story, “Walk on Air Against Your Better Judgment,” staff writer Caitlin Flanagan writes for the first time about growing up with the Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet ...
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‘I am not one to say no to a blessing’ says Geoffrey Grigson in his poem on the burial of Auden, ‘Occasion in Westminster Abbey’. Yet the title of his recently collected essays and reviews, Blessings, ...
Maura Dooley’s most recent collection of poetry is Five Fifty-Five (Bloodaxe, 2023). With Elhum Shakerifar she published translations of verse by the Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman, Negative of a ...
Since their debut in 2021, Dundalk duo Negro Impacto, comprising vocalist-songwriter Chi-chi and producer/multi-instrumentalist Laurence, have been making waves in the Irish music scene.
Bring Them Down, the new Irish thriller starring Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott, will be released in cinemas on Friday 7 February 2025. The debut feature of writer-director Christopher ...
Hosted by the Institute of Irish Studies, which is based at the university, Gough will open the event, which is organised by the Institute in association with The Estate of Seamus Heaney. The actor ...
Trembling in summer breezes, bog cotton brightens the Irish landscape. These fluffy, feathery blooms are found where their name suggests, smack bang in the middle of Ireland’s beautiful bogs.
The Irish Defence Forces observed a Russian spy ship operating three drones in Irish-controlled waters over the weekend, raising fears that the ship was conducting surveillance of critical subsea ...
Fine Gael leader and Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Simon Harris has defended the selection of a general election candidate who was found liable for assault. Senator John McGahon, who is ...
the heron on his stilts, years of the other lives that make one life. Today’s poem is from John McAuliffe’s new collection, National Theatre (Gallery Press).