The Center Did Not Hold About 100 years ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called “The Second Coming” which has become ...

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Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and ...

A delegation of 28 representatives from 11 South Korean cities visited Sligo last week where they explored Sligo’s night-time ...

The Irish aptitude for storytelling has long been lauded as a national characteristic, and its outlets in different literary ...

Progressives face the urgent challenge of defending democracy without reinforcing the very divisions that fuel its decline.

Once again, the Port of Holyhead for the fifth full day remains closed to ferries, causing severe disruption to freight ...

James Baldwin matters. To veteran Baldwin admirers, his renewed prominence comes as a surprise after decades of indifference.

A 1903 poem perfectly capturing the terror and tedium of war has made the 28 Years Later teaser a sensation. What makes it so ...

A strike at The Guardian exposes a deeper crisis of solidarity and purpose within the liberal left.

Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his work 'Gitanjali'. His ...