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Ten Irish American writers who transformed American literature with their unique voices

From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Eugene O'Neill, explore the remarkable legacy of Irish American letters.

Meet the blind Donegal poet who brought "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to Irish and British children

Frances Browne, once a household name in Victorian literary London, deserves to be remembered for far more than her poetry alone.

How an Irish maid saved Emily Dickinson's poetry

A look into Emily Dickinson's fascinating Irish connection: her maid, Margaret Maher.

Galway Girl, my Arse

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Meet the gay Irish icons who shaped literature, revolution and pride

From Oscar Wilde to Senator David Norris, gay and bisexual Irish figures helped drag the nation from Victorian law toward a world first for marriage equality.

Ireland - Yeats Country (2/666)

Postcard Ireland - Yeats Country 

Before he wrote "The Informer," Liam O'Flaherty occupied a Dublin hall with a red flag

Long before his fiction made him famous, the Irish author led hundreds of unemployed men in a defiant four-day takeover of Dublin's Rotunda.

The Belfast rebel poet who first called Ireland the Emerald Isle

William Drennan, a physician and founding figure of the United Irishmen, put the phrase into print in an 1795 poem urging his countrymen to strike without cruelty.

Irish book week brings packed programme of events to north Wicklow bookshops

The Irish language was banned and fined out of public life but never died

Gaeilge has been spoken on the island for more than 2,000 years, surviving Norman conquest, colonial anglicisation policies and centuries of official hostility.

Laughs come thick and fast in Paul Howard’s united Ireland satire that takes the royal mick out of everyone on both side...

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Short story collection The Other Poet Drives a Black Mercedes shows Órfhlaith Foyle at the peak of her powers

Fiction

Was WB Yeats a vampire? The proof is in the poetry

His name has struck terror into the heart of many a student but it’s worth sinking your teeth in a little deeper.

A young Antrim priest wrote “The Foggy Dew” in 1919 and signed it with a false name

Canon Charles O’Neill walked out of the first sitting of the Dáil so moved by what he had heard that he went home and wrote the ballad, then published it as Iascar to protect himse...

Seven Irish legends to tell your kids as the dark evenings close in

A wailing fairy woman who appears in three forms, four children cursed into swans, and a boy who earned his name by killing a guard dog with a hurl and a sliotar.

On This Day: Irish Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney dies in 2013

Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who died on August 30, 2013, described his own journey through life best in his beautiful epitaph. 

Acclaimed Wicklow poet fronts nature-themed performance of poetry, music and video

Lise Hand: Hilda Moriarty inspired ‘Raglan Road’, so why isn't she remembered?

Patrick Kavanagh immortalised his raven-haired muse in verse, but Moriarty went on to have a remarkable life of her own. So where is her statue, and those of women like her?

Irish novelist SEBASTIAN BARRY’s latest is set in post-Civil War America

Sebastian Barry's The Newer World sets out the life and times of Tennyson Bouguereau, a freed man making his way in postbellum America. The post Irish novelist SEBASTIAN BARRY’s la...

Forget The Craic. Modern Ireland is sanctimonious, angry - and addicted to grievance and playing the historical victim:...

The Guinness. That effortless warmth. 'The Craic'. A nation of poets and storytellers, irreverent but fundamentally decent. That's the Irish for you - at least according to benevol...

The Irish Punks Who Know Their Yeats

Fontaines D.C., a young quintet from Dublin, brings a raucous intelligence to its songs of oblivion.

On This Day: Irish dramatist Sean O'Casey dies in 1964

Sean O’Casey not only changed the world of theatre, he took the time to put the passion and pain of his life into print for the rest of us to marvel at.

American Literature: An Englishman Confesses his Ignorance

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Continuous requests for scripts prompts Leitrim playwright to release comedy book