“I spent a good part of my 15th year puzzling over drafts of poems by Dylan Thomas… often copying out each successive draft myself… trying to deduce... the reason for revisions in sound”. So wrote ...

William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, died on this day in 1939. Editor's Note: Yeats was a pillar of the Irish and British literary establishment and in his ...

Almost 20 years later, Beckett was rejected with gusto again when he submitted two novels, Molloy, and Malone Dies. An American publisher dismissed them as unfunny, senseless and dull. “There’s no ...

Sylvia Plath, a brilliant American poet and novelist, captured the raw edges of mental illness and identity in mid-20th-century America. Her life, marked by early promise and profound loss, culminated ...

On January 26, 1907, John Millington Synge's “The Playboy of the Western World” opened at the Abbey Theater in Dublin. The production caused such a fuss that projectiles were flung at the stage in ...

Larry Levis’s work, gathered in the expansive new book “Swirl & Vortex,” was equally concerned with the soul and the void.

“The Four Irish Nobel Literary Laureates”—William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney—in cast bronze by internationally noted Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie. The piece was ...

What are you reading during the pandemic? We've been asking that question to a range of writers and they've responded with suggestions for fantasy, poetry, new fiction, old fiction, web comics, fairy ...

We are often told how important it is to recycle, but not everything belongs in the recycling bin. A binman has recently opened up about how they can refuse to take away your waste if certain items ...

More than forty years ago, Brian P. Burns made a bet with himself: “Isn’t it possible that the Irish could be just as brilliant in the visual arts as they have been in music and literature?” The Brian ...

Bondi Faces Bipartisan Anger Over Epstein Files in Combative Hearing Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to apologize to survivors of the convicted sex offender who were present for her testimony to ...

Bulletin: ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 6 PM THIS EVENING TO 2 AM EST WEDNESDAY... * WHAT...Freezing rain expected. Total ice accumulations around a light ...