Niamh Connolly, a debut novelist from Cork and winner of last year’s Women’s Prize Discoveries Award, has signed a six-figure ...

Writer Allen Morris Jones, Montana’s new poet laureate, is a lot like his own poetry—articulate but accessible, initially ...

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, ...

Analysis: Patti Smith's defiant and non-conformist work has always had a strong influence on Ireland's punk, rock and underground scenes Few music subcultures can boast that they included a female ...