The problem with a great deal of academic writing comes down to one word: hedging. I don’t know why the mark of intellection should have become the refusal boldly to advance a claim. The ...

Joanne writes in Irish and English. She is published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Rattle, Aneas, Comhar, The Honest Ulsterman, Howl, The Four Faced Liar and others. She was selected ...

Patrick told The Irish Times that he recalled his mother taking up writing in the 1960s as it was the only way “she could see of escaping the trap of domesticity and its isolation." She moved to ...

It seems like the world and his wife has a podcast these days - which makes it all the more difficult to decide what's ...

like the best Irish writing is. And it includes the song “Dublin in the Rare Old Times,” which was one of my late father’s favorites. And “Danny Boy,” which never fails to make me cry ...

A journey in the wheel tracks of Irishman William Bulfin, who chronicled his bicycle tours of the country at the start of the 20th century ...

America’s first St. Patrick’s Day celebration was in 1600 in the Spanish colony of present-day St. Augustine, Florida.

Notre Dame faces a crucial QB decision for 2025. Will it be CJ Carr, Kenny Minchey, or a transfer? It's the big call for the Fighting Irish season.

The Great Hunger was a modern event, shaped by the belief that the poor are the authors of their own misery and that the ...

Many of the undocumented Irish immigrants paid taxes and settled ... One of the plus sides of writing a story, rather than a novel, is that you can leave out large areas of the emotional history ...

“Dylan Thomas is Welsh, not Irish,” someone commented, anonymously. The only thing worse than being awake at 4 a.m. is ...