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And no one has ever captured that sort of existential fear of the brave future quite like Irish poet W.B. Yeats, who I’m fairly certain has never expressed any thoughts on a Georgia/Auburn football ...
Including a history of the Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movements, a gem of a novel by Darach Ó Scolaí and Joe McHugh’s ...
Fiona is a poet living in Cork. She holds a BA in creative writing from Shepherd University and an MA with distinction in creative writing from UCC. A finalist for the Bournemouth Writing Prize and ...
McCrae has been exploring the afterlife in his poetry for several years now, and here his reimagining of Dante’s Inferno is immersive in the best ways — captivating, terrifying and occasionally ...
He’s been placed in the TU Dublin Story Prize and Waterford Poetry Prize, and published in Southword, Banshee, Crannóg, Manchester Review, Channel, Grain, and Sonder.
Dawn Macdonald has won the Canadian First Book Prize for her debut poetry collection Northerny. The Whitehorse-based writer will receive $10,000 and a six-week residency in Italy, in partnership ...
In the Irish Times, Colm Tóibín who wrote the foreword for the book, described the collection as poems that "can be daring, directly personal as well as directly political". He added: "It is ...
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 ...
Funny poems that bring the laughs in verse Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and other forms of poetry are stuffy, profound waxings on the ...
Funny limericks that will get you laughing in no time You may recall learning about limericks (or even writing a few of your own) in grade school. If you’re all grown up now and you love ...
But amidst all the songs, dance, poetry, and theatre, Irish Fest has also maintained a commitment to another touchstone of Irish culture: the love of sports. And amongst the tug o’ war and ...