Irish Poetry

They live in the lamplight of dusk riven shade, releasing souls from the stone of dolmen beds Diarmuid and Gráinne stretched out on when fle...

Strong is the power of ones light. The spiritual armour of goodness Resisting rulers' wicked wiles And the cult of men in darkness. With...

I recently read a book on Yeats. The Yeats We Knew, which are the texts of five Thomas Davis Lectures, first broadcast on RTE in 1965, as pa...

Someone asked what had happened to Peter Hitchens, the man who advocates genoicide for muslims, brother to Christopher the Daily Mail fascis...

Eye the chasm of a heart. refuse to look past a pool, cloud drawing love to force a tide of will. Storms of white horse water whip the dawn ...

Angel is a person online who is a regular voice in my head and i learnt today s/he smashed up the telly: "I wouldn't advise anyone...

1979-1983 were my secondary days, from childhood to ones youthful coming of age in a time, just like todays. The kids, as they are now. Some...

I suppose if prose is the light ale of writing, poetry would be the heavy proof gear, which most writers would agree is the creme de la crem...

Dear Diary. Another sunny day saving Tara. Cycled up the coast to Howth in the morning and then back to the homeless canteen for lunch. A sm...

This is a section of the dán díreach ('strict-straight verse') anamain ('glorious profit') praise poem by arch poetry prof...

Upstairs in The Palace Bar - Saturday 8 September - and a mad great night of Inclusional collective affirmation, all poets from across t...

One of the most unknown poetic lore - containing the most complete and real poetic - is the four cycles of Irish myth, the mystical knowledg...

"..the believer is no longer under the dominion and control of law, but under the dominion and controlling influence of grace. The beli...

Certainly we star, and when our trajectory and kink is traced, when the heat of ones current and career-currency is such as it is when enter...

Let me be your reader; i bessech you all here today for the goodness that is bono Love; good, good loving..Bob sung and continues to in his ...

I have always been a voracious reader and in the formative years was lucky to have a sister 5 years older who is a book nut, and thus i imbi...

In 1948, Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen (1899 - 1973) wrote a fifteen page critical text on her personal creative process in an early ...