When Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel laureate, died in 2013, his last words were sent by text message. Minutes before ...

“Dylan Thomas is Welsh, not Irish,” someone commented, anonymously. The only thing worse than being awake at 4 a.m. is ...

Author and journalist Rosie Schaap found solace and community in the Glens of Antrim after the death of her first husband ...

A new book by the artist Dorothy Cross tells the remarkable story of Cecil, UCC’s Egyptian mummy, and his return home ...

In the old Irish calendar the day after St Patrick’s Day is Sheelah’s Day, in commemoration of the woman who many believe to ...

One-party rule by Ulster unionists, Watkins writes, left Catholics with “few jobs, poor housing and threadbare resources.” In ...

She is the 2025 Seamus Heaney Centre Fellow at Queen's University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Author of ...

A hundred years after the birth of Flannery O’Connor, her South, as well as the rest of America, is less “Christ-haunted,” as ...

We are already more than halfway through Irish American heritage month, so if you are still searching for some luck this ...

The playwright’s really done my job for me Phenomenally! The level of attention to detail is remarkable at Asolo Rep. We’ve ...