WHITE house bigwig Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allegedly penned jaw-dropping, X-rated poetry to journalist Olivia Nuzzi in a ...

The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

William Logan on recently published poetry by Rosanna Warren, Moya Cannon, John Koethe, Rebecca Watts, Henri Cole & Wendy ...

Irish literature expert Máirín Nic Eoin takes us through memoirs, stories, poems and songs about stories of people departing ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, is our favorite holiday. Back when I taught Irish language classes, I would challenge my ...

When Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a poem that would change the course of his life.

“I must start at the start, at the white page in my mind,” Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin wrote in Borders, from The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001), and throughout her New Selected Poems (Gallery, ...

Thomas Kinsella is without doubt, after James Joyce, the most important literary artist to emerge from Catholic Ireland. His work is one of our small culture’s crowning achievements, and the scholar ...

In RTÉ's new radio series, Coming Home - Stories of Being Chinese Irish, six people from Ireland's Chinese-Irish community welcome host Eva Pau into their home and share their personal story of ...

Poet Roger McGough has led tributes to the writer Brian Patten following his death at the age of 79. Patten, who co-wrote The Mersey Sound anthology alongside McGough and Adrian Henri, “died ...