Perhaps the most common and well known old Irish cure is that of using a dock leaf for a nettle sting. Rubbing the affected ...

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 ...

Paul Durcan, an Irish poet whose droll, sardonic and frequently tender poems about lads in dimly lit pubs, quotidian life in the countryside and the trauma of political violence made him one of ...

Poems like Night, for example, are explicit in their bold use of homosexual imagery: I ask you then what am I to do with all these memories heavy and full? Hold them, quiet, between my two hands, ...

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23. "Bless your little Irish heart and every other Irish part." — Unknown 24. "The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act." — Barbara Sher 25.

The Scottish Parliament building is marking its 20th year. (Jane Barlow/PA) Two quotes from each poet have been put forward, with the public now being urged to choose between these.

US President Joe Biden quoted Irish poet William Butler Yeats during his address at the 79th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, September 24. In the fifth minute of his ...

Edna O’Brien, Irish novelist and iconoclast known for ‘The Country Girls,’ dies at 93 Edna O’Brien, the award-winning Irish novelist known for ‘The Country Girls’ series and numerous ...

Keneally quotes liberally from Mitchel’s own writings (as he does from Meagher’s speeches and Speranza’s poetry) and he doesn’t shy away from including two of his subject’s most ...