For some, St. Patrick’s Day is a time to swill green beer and listen to the Pogues, Cranberries or Dropkick Murphy songs. And if you don’t mind the ensuing hangover, it might be fun, but there are ...

LUNENBURG — Storyteller, singer, and harper Kate Chadbourne is excited to celebrate spring and April Poetry Month with traditional Irish poems set to music, stories that extol cleverness and courage, ...

A striking new ad by Joe Biden makes reference to his lifelong love of Irish poetry, but the ad goes further – like the Irish poet that he quotes, Nobel Prize laureate Seamus Heaney - it proves that ...

President Biden wears his Irish Catholic heritage on his sleeve — a fact that will be on full display during his visit to Ireland this coming week. The trip marks the 25th anniversary of the Good ...

Sometimes, in the ocean of Boston College events that occur every single day, there emerges a hidden gem—a diamond in the rough, of sorts. This Tuesday, the John J. Burns Library and the BC Center for ...

Contributor Patricia Kileen explore the timeless bond between Irish poets and their beloved 'Irish Mammy' muse in literary tradition. Thomas MacDonagh and James Connolly both wrote about their sons; ...

Dream Latitudes is experimental in the best way; not showy or esoteric for the sake of it. Instead, this book creates the ...

In America, St. Patrick’s Day has somehow transformed into a holiday where people swill green beer while the bar plays the same Dropkick Murphys’ songs over and over again. If you’re young enough to ...

You lose more of yourself than you redeem doing the decent thing. Keep at a tangent. When they make the circle wide, it's time to swim out on your own – Seamus Heaney Paul Muldoon, the creative ...

“Love, I believed, was like starting on a pilgrimage, stepping blithely out over the gunwale, hoping to waltz on water; there would be hands working inside one another's lives, grasping the heart for ...