The Irish have a rich tradition of storytelling and poetry, with their language full of colorful and insightful sayings and phrases that reflect their history, culture, and values. Irish sayings ...

Belfast-born writer Michael Longley has been remembered as “one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced” following his death aged 85. Tributes have been paid to the poet, described as ...

The son of acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley said his family have been “overwhelmed” with the outpouring of love ...

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Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill was poet in residence at University College Cork when he was beginning secondary school, “and our Irish teacher knew her. And so she came into our class and recited poems as ...

Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a poet whose graceful and careful work made him one of the most cherished writers of Northern Ireland and, for some, the English-reading world.

Yeats, wrote ruefully about his waning poetic powers in “The Circus Animal’s Desertion,” published in The Atlantic in January 1939, the month of his death at age 73. In this apocalyptic depiction of ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

Ulster University has a strong record of research and holds plentiful resources in the fields of both Ulster Poetry and Irish Book History. As part of the Ulster Poetry Project, we at Ulster have ...

The funeral of acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley has taken place in Belfast. Mr Longley died in hospital at the age of 85 on 22 January. The poet is survived by his wife Edna and children Rebecca ...

ACCLAIMED IRISH POET Michael Longley died on Wednesday night in Belfast at the age of 85, following a short battle with illness.The poet was born in Belfast city in 1939 to English parents, but ...