In "My Ireland," commissioned for Dublin’s St. Patrick ... Irish problems and barriers to progress highlighted and the poem does nothing to gloss over any self-questioning and self-analyzing ...

We Irish are nothing if not poets. Here is a selection of the best Irish poems and songs that show off Ireland's spectacular way with words and fill us with pride in being Irish.

To mark World Down Syndrome Day 2025, Run of the Mill and Arcade Film are delighted to premiere their new short, Connections.

In the first episode of their new Close Readings series on political poetry, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ by Andrew Marvell, described by ...

Pete Mullineaux's most recent collection is We are the Walrus (Salmon 2022). His environmental film-poem Careful What You Wish For Orangutan won the 2023 Home-stage pFITE award.

A small business owner has written a poem highlighting the challenges facing shops in his home town, and encouraging locals to use them. Topher Chard's poem is about Newquay, where he runs two ...