LUNENBURG — Storyteller, singer, and harper Kate Chadbourne is excited to celebrate spring and April Poetry Month with traditional Irish poems set to music, stories that extol cleverness and courage, ...

In America, St. Patrick’s Day has somehow transformed into a holiday where people swill green beer while the bar plays the same Dropkick Murphys’ songs over and over again. If you’re young enough to ...

Sometimes, in the ocean of Boston College events that occur every single day, there emerges a hidden gem—a diamond in the rough, of sorts. This Tuesday, the John J. Burns Library and the BC Center for ...

We Irish are nothing if not poets. Here is a selection of the best Irish poems and songs that show off Ireland's spectacular way with words and fill us with pride in being Irish.

Heartwarming love poem from Dublin poet Brian Kirk has been named as Listowel Writers’ Week Irish Poem of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2018. We are more than embracing our sentimental ...

Listen to a 9th century Irish poem in its original language Dr. Mark Harman recites the 9th century Irish poem 'Pangur Ban' (author unknown) in both Irish and an English translation. Dr. Mark Harman ...

What better gift for a literature lover than this handsome little collection of Irish poems? Of course, the writers and wits of the Emerald Isle have always had a penchant for verse, and this tiny ...

Elizabeth Forrester wants everyone to keep Irish music in their hearts. “My friends and my husband and I spent every St. Patrick’s Day together for 40 or 50 years,” she said. “We’d sing and play the ...

Durcan (2007): his responses to the world were intimately bound up with his own private world - Eamonn McCabe/Popperfoto via Getty Images Paul Durcan, who has died aged 80, was a prolific and popular ...

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

A Nigerian man has told CNN he was surprised to learn that US President Donald Trump had read a few lines of his poetry at an event marking St. Patrick’s Day on Thursday. “My sister just brought the ...