The publication of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” is an occasion to celebrate the Nobel Prize winning poet whose work extends Ireland’s extraordinary literary lineage. Heaney takes his place alongside ...

I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure ...

That’s the miracle of Bethlehem – that at a human level, the wonder is that the birth of the Christ-child ushered in ‘such ...

I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure throughout my lifetime – ...

Water off a duck’s back. Norman MacCaig was an Edinburgh boy with the Highlands in his heart. Born on 14 November 1910, his ...

New statistics reveal that while domestic travel has slowed, the sunny south remains the top choice for Irish holidaymakers ...

At this time of year, who would want to be Dickens’ Scrooge character in “A Christmas Carol,” in which the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come led him to see his own name on a weed-overgrown tombstone ...

An appeal has been made by Dublin author Brendan Lynch for the repatriation of the body of Susan Yeats, mother of WB Yeats, to Sligo from what has been described as a neglected grave in a London ...

One what would have been the 68th birtnday of The Pogues singer Shane MacGowan, we remember the outstanding legacy of this ...

Water off a duck’s back. Norman MacCaig was an Edinburgh boy with the Highlands in his heart. Born on 14 November 1910, his father Robert was a chemist from Dumfriesshire, while his mother Joan (née ...

After decades of teaching girls the structure and subtleties of fiction and poetry at Stuart Country Day School in Princeton, Nancy K. Light, 86, succumbed to ...