Ludlow’s very own literary festival, Lit Bits, is a brand new weekend of words with a difference. Centring on play and ...

Liz McSkeane is a poet, fiction writer and publisher, winner of the Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year for her poetry and the Irish Writers’ Centre Novel Fair for her historical novel Canticle.

The Arts Council has named the seven Irish writers who have been appointed artists in residence across six universities for 2025. Each award is worth €30,000. Sarah Gilmartin is to be English ...

HAILED as the queen of flawless complexions, make-up artist Lisa Eldridge knows a thing or two about concealer. Her make-up ...

The significance of the opening in Ireland is that Cobain had Irish roots himself, having ancestors who emigrated to the ...

Michael Longley, the Irish poet whose long career included more than 40 books, died last week. He was lauded by literary, ...

The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife' is tense, terrifyingly real, and very hard to put down June O’Sullivan did the bulk of the writing during lockdown, with the help of an Irish Writer’s Centre ...

Rúaidhrí O’Connor The loss of captain Sione Tuipulotu is a hammer blow for Scotland that rules them out as contenders, leaving Ireland, England and France. If Ireland can beat England on ...

Remember when I read you Milton’s Lycidas, about the drowned shepherd who wasn’t dead at all? *** Nights. I hear you in the hallway child step pattering. It’s you — is it? Did you hear that, yes, ...

As a boy in fourth class in Cork’s North Monastery school in the 1960s, a teacher posed a question to Theo Dorgan. The poet ...

"Why should writers sit around for months searching for ... Zero emotional content (which in art, is kind of important)," one person wrote. "I doubt AI could ever write a line as enduring and ...