Irish Poetry

Dear England F.C. I am writing to congratulate you on your recent success in the South Africa World Cup 2010. This year you showed great pro...

Mary Hynes (The most beautiful woman in the West. Padraic Fallon translation of the Anthony Raftery poem) That Sunday, on my oath, the rain ...

(From the Herschel Space Observatory ) The image shows most of the cloud associated with the Rosette nebula, located about 5,000 light-years...

Got up and went down Oliver Bond to get some smack - mainlined trainlined fein-times 'n all over in a rat a ta tat - the voices in me ed...

In January 2001 at the age of 33, I started writing; and by March of that year had decided to jack in life as a London admin drudge, reading...

P Oh, three-handedly preternatural smoothness Sligo - Achonry, Aclare - Ballaghnatrillick, Ballinafad, Skreen, Strandhill - Tourlestrane, Tu...

Poe, Humboldt, Pope and Coleridge, Bacon, Shelley, Parke and Greene - Bryant, Lincoln, Fremont, Cooper, Alex Langston and Charles Bernstein ...

Memory. My thoughts are clear like a crystal fountain, As a river runs with a breeze: come to the edge And seek out the forest, come to the ...

The poet below is Ailsing Fox. I heard her first in 2004, not long after I'd arrived in Dublin in search of something. An 'itch'...

I've just been watching a news-video on the Guardian website English Defence League march in London. The opposing, anti-facist marchers,...

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There are some achingly mental thought-pictures and scenes in those eloquent sentences; useful because bodies live in constant flux and bor...

Being very much a minority art-form since time immemorial, all one can hope for is to create well, that which appears, here and in the appli...

"Ireland had chances at Croke Park and in Paris but didn’t take them. France were there for the taking but Ireland never grabbed it – a...

Congratulations to Craigavon's Séamus Fox for securing the first prize winnings of 200 euro at last night's All Ireland Poetry Slam...

Along the flight-path of angels was a village called Poetry where stir the artful dawn-dropped moments pictured three floors above a flat ce...

TAZZ Sometimes, at night the same darkness shares the same table we pull this swollen current across: this river, this stream and ocean of m...

Conceptualist Tony Gormley , a substantially subsidised intellectual ex-public schoolboy and deep thinking sculptor whose rusty works supply...

What is the Muse but Memory of a great tradition, Finnegas and Finn McCool speaking the meaning of *éces* - which the modern Irish word for ...