On International Siblings Day today, Angelia Pranthaman shares treasured memories of her older brother and the close bond he ...

Emily Dickinson explained what the feeling of writing poetry is like, “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were ...

Hundreds of people came to the Celebration of Life event for Autumn Bushman, a 10-year-old girl who died by suicide on March ...

The traditional month-long book fair ended last February. The book fair commemorates the fallen heroes who sacrificed their ...

Harry Cluff on the debts owed by Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams & Rainer Maria Rilke to the painter.

Seamus Heaney was born on this day, April 13 ... the young author and his mother, peeling potatoes. Heaney's poem topped the poll two years after his death in 2013. Upon the award, Heaney's ...

All through the summer of 1788, the great poet-philosopher-playwright Friedrich Schiller used to stride around this bend, ...

Personal tragedy and self-doubt almost robbed Aoife Dunne of her childhood dream, but she overcame her fears and discovered a ...

Down in Ballydehob, 100 kilometres away, Kevin Ireland was expecting me and it was already midday. He did not drive and had no phone, although he told me I could ring Jack O’Connor at his bookshop in ...

Hidden in the footnotes of history books, these lesser-known leaders of Greek origin held great power over numerous countries ...