Irish people have historically looked to the natural world to forecast the weather and make sense of their surroundings.

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Liz Ison is author of six literary anthologies including 100 Poems to Help You Heal and A Literary Letter for Every Day of the Year. She runs poetry walks and workshops and leads shared reading groups ...

Belfast-born Medbh McGuckian’s work is fluid, shifting, musical, and when read in this new selected poems it becomes easier to evoke an atmosphere, or tone, than to boil her down to any cold facts.

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 ...

It’s unusual, if not rare, for a work by an acclaimed poet to appear in the pages of a national newspaper, only for it to vanish without trace, then resurface, 18 years later, and go on to become one ...

It's been another bumper year for Irish literature - and now that 2025 is pretty much done and dusted, it's time to cast our ...

The Minnesota Vikings and Pittsburgh Steelers faced off Sunday in Dublin, with Joe Davis and Greg Olsen having the broadcast duties for NFL Network. And with the game in Ireland, the topic of Irish ...

Witness the unexpected! A goat stands atop a pony in a hilarious Irish farm scene. What shenanigans did these animals get up to last night? Fallout: Investigators trace alleged fraud America’s biggest ...

Some flowers are red; some flowers are blue. We have funny roses-are-red poems to share with your entire crew. Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you? Part joke, ...