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

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He is one of the greatest songwriters of all time, and while his solo work is celebrated Paul McCartney mad ehis name, and ...

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 ...

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(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) EMILY BRIGHT: My name is Emily Bright. I am a writer and a radio producer living in St. Paul, Minnesota. I have been writing poetry my whole life. I think poetry is ...

On May 31, 2025, close to 9,000 people stood or sat beneath the open sky and tents at Cyasemakamba in Ngoma District, not in celebration but in solemn remembrance. A sacred fire burned—not in flames, ...