And Seamus Heaney would understand that exception. Fathers have a special place in his poetry, and Heaney’s own – “By God, ...
Wicklow poet Jane Clarke will read from her latest publication at a special poetry at Bridge Street Books of Wicklow town to celebrate Irish Book Week. The Hare’s Corner: Making Space for Nature by ...
Popstar Charli XCX is turning her hand to acting in the new film Erupcja. In it, she recites Lord Byron’s poem Darkness.
There’s an Irish pub in Reading serving fried oysters so spectacular that people have stopped arguing about who makes them best and just agreed it’s the Ugly Oyster Drafthaus, which is quite the ...
A new scholarly study reveals how the Nobel-winning poet’s verse reflects a profoundly sacramental imagination.
Maggie Doherty is Maggie Doherty is the author of “[The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s]( She teaches at Harvard. on The New Yorker. Read Maggie Doherty's ...
"Every day, when I sit down at the harp, I’m so grateful that this has come into my life,” said Regina Delaney of Exeter.
Irish poet Luke Morgan read select poems and discussed their origin, significance and greater themes at an event hosted by ...
The Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program will host Joey McMullen of Indiana University, who will deliver a paper Wednesday titled ...
recorded details so well disguised. Faded ink’s shrunken all she mourned, months she spent reduced to memo size. Shamed. Her family broke all ties. Flesh and blood turned to stone. Spidery script ...
In a photograph of Seamus Heaney and four of his siblings as children, reproduced in Dennis O’Driscoll’s indispensable book Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008), the poet’s sisters, ...