Durcan’s funeral continued that ancient tradition, Fr Tonge said. He was Ireland’s poet, but he was also Ringsend’s and a ...

Paul Durcan, the Dublin-born poet, died on May 17 at the age of 80. There was no one quite like him. Prolific, popular and a ...

The poet Paul Durcan died last week. I almost met him. This was at the beginning of the 1970s. ​I was a student at University ...

What do you get when a classically-trained soprano is mixed with shredding guitar riffs, pounding drums and lyrics that tell the tale of an alleged serial killer during the early modern period? Local ...

Christopher de Vinck reflects on the coconut vendor he met outside of the Vatican, after meeting John Paul II. Power is not ...

Moina Michael suggested the idea of wearing red poppies on Memorial Day in honor of those who died serving our nation during ...

Before Thoreau's "life in the woods," there was Brister Freeman, a formerly enslaved man who won his freedom serving in the ...

John Paul Davies is a former winner of the Penguin Ireland Story Award. He’s been placed in the TU Dublin Story Prize and ...

Counting down the ten greatest covers of The Kinks, the group that typified the sounds of the swinging sixties thanks to the songwriting genius of Ray Davies.

It's not romantic melancholy or existential questioning that you may see on the streets of Gaza. Rather, it's a unique ...

Whether you have great expectations or are keen to be far from the madding crowd, the UK’s literary calendar has something ...