Eibhlís Carcione lives in Cork city, and will be reading at the at the Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival this weekend in the Kino. She won Duais Fhoras na Gaeilge in 2012. 

James Joyce, Seamus Heaney and Thomas McCarthy are among the poets assembled in a wonderful book of writings inspired by music, says Alan O’Riordan

MICHAEL LONGLEY is one of the most popular Irish poets of the modern era. 

Days after its launch and the 1916 centenary website Ireland.ie has already been taken down for maintenance. 

Irish authors have taken pieces in the National Gallery as inspiration for prose and poetry, writes Peter Murray

A ‘map’ tells the story of the city’s poems, songs and characters, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

Dublin’s “informal poet laureate” Paula Meehan has been named Ireland Professor of Poetry.

Family and friends of Nobel Laureate poet Seamus Heaney have gathered with his contemporaries and dignitaries to pay last respects to one Ireland’s literary greats.

As news broke of the passing of poet and Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney yesterday, tributes were shared from around the world. Here are some of the many.

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Nobel poet laureate Seamus Heaney has been remembered as one of Ireland’s finest literary minds following his death after a short illness.

The world-famous poet, Seamus Heaney who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, passed away today at 74 years of age.

OTTERS are charming creatures in the way in which, all of a sudden, they poke their heads out of the water and, with whiskers dripping silvery water-drops, regard us with a look of intelligent curiosity in their dark brown eyes.

THE 2013 January exhibition of watercolours by JMW Turner at the National Gallery of Ireland includes the entire Vaughan bequest and five other watercolours acquired in recent years.

It may have been a simple handshake between two people, but for the watching world, Martin McGuinness and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth made history.

The historic handshake between the British Queen and Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness, together with his words of blessing as they said goodbye, have been hailed as a watershed moment for Irish-Britishrelations.

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THE poet, Louis MacNeice died suddenly in 1963 of viral pneumonia, contracted while recording sound effects in an underground cave in Yorkshire for his last radio play, Persons from Porlock.

DESPITE the poor forecast, the sun came out in many parts of the country on Saturday morning, almost as if it knew that Leaving Certificate students were back in the exam hall.

THE Burren is widely regarded as one of Europe’s most outstanding and distinctive landscapes, with a rich plant life and a cultural heritage stretching back 6,000 years.

Tony Blair and Bill Clinton have been invited to an event in the North marking 10 years since the Good Friday Agreement, it was revealed today.

LEADING figures in the literary world, such as Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibín, Fergal Keane and Michael Longley, will be among the personalities attending Listowel Writers’ Week, which opened last night.

LEADING figures in the literary world, such as Roddy Doyle, Colm Toibín, Fergal Keane and Michael Longley, will be among the personalities attending Listowel Writers’ Week, which opened last night.

A number of writers have come together to demand an end to a loyalist campaign of intimidation against one of their colleagues in Belfast.

THE first day of the Leaving Certificate raised no major difficulties on English papers for students at either level yesterday.

RAIN didn’t dampen spirits on the second day of Listowel Writers’ Week yesterday, as people scurried from reading to reading, clutching an umbrella and with the inevitable book under the arm, got it signed by their favourite author.

LEADING figures in the literary world, such as Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín, Fergal Keane and Michael Longley, will be among the personalities attending Listowel Writers’ Week, which opens tomorrow night.

Several leading Northern-born actors, poets and writers have given their support to a boycott of a Belfast awards ceremony later today in protest at cutbacks in the city's arts budget.