The Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets offers a fascinating introduction to Irish poetry from the seventeenth century to the present. Aimed primarily at lovers of poetry, it examines a wide range of ...

Vona Groarke’s latest, 14th, book Woman of Winter, (a contemporary setting of ‘The Lament of the Hag of Beare’) was published ...

The Lament for Art O' Leary (2024) a new opera by Irene Buckley with text by poet Vona Groarke will be premiered on the Lyric ...

The content of that folio sheds light on the relationships between the continental houses, and highlights the more quotidian and less-vaunted aspects of the lives and work of these exiled Irish men of ...

McCaffery, Richie 2015. “The Adjacent Kingdom of England”: England, Scotland, and World War Two in the Poetry of Douglas Young (1913–1973). Études écossaises, p. 87.

For both, prose may offer an earnest way of trying to think about (and possibly answer) questions posed by poems. “We were all young once… and full of religious zeal to save Irish poetry from ...

Ulster University has a strong record of research and holds plentiful resources in the fields of both Ulster Poetry and Irish Book History. As part of the Ulster Poetry Project, we at Ulster have ...

This week there’s another eclectic mix of fiction, memoirs and a few poems too!

Dylan Thomas’s poetry was “in the ether” when Sheen was a child in Wales and he joked that rather than his mother, the very ...