# poetry - Tuesday 4 November, 2014
# Inappropriate Tweeting?
# Inappropriate Tweeting?
Ursula Halligan questioned the Sinn Féin leader on the appropriateness of some of his tweets.
# poetry - Thursday 16 October, 2014
# Wordsmiths
# Wordsmiths
Lingo Festival takes place in Dublin this weekend.
# poetry - Tuesday 16 September, 2014
# Moving
From The Daily Edge
# Moving
The poem has been called “moving” and “beautiful”.
# poetry - Saturday 30 August, 2014
# Seamus Heaney
# Seamus Heaney
Here’s a collection of art inspired by the beloved poet…
# poetry - Thursday 28 August, 2014
# Brill-ately
# Brill-ately
For when you want to rest the squat pen between finger and thumb and, you know, write a letter…
# poetry - Monday 30 June, 2014
# RIP
# RIP
Roddy Doyle has described Healy as “Ireland’s greatest writer”.
# poetry - Wednesday 28 May, 2014
# RIP
From The Daily Edge
# RIP
The author passed away today at the age of 86.
# poetry - Saturday 24 May, 2014
# TheBoredBaker
From The Daily Edge
# TheBoredBaker
“Seven pound an hour/ Is the price of my labour/ Loyalty costs more.”
# poetry - Wednesday 16 April, 2014
# Beware Of Dad
From The Daily Edge
# Beware Of Dad
He has been training to kill you, so you might wanna listen up.
# poetry - Wednesday 26 March, 2014
# Get Reading
# Get Reading
The book features poetry and song lyrics about Dublin, but it’s not just for poetry buffs.
# poetry - Saturday 22 February, 2014
# Poetry In Motion
# Poetry In Motion
Can’t we get more from our vast historic and modern wellspring of poetry? We are, after all, the nation that has reputedly more poets per square mile than any other in the world, writes Stephen Downes.
# poetry - Friday 14 February, 2014
# Roses Are Red
From The Daily Edge
# Roses Are Red
Roses are red, violets are blue, we can write poetry, how about you?
# poetry - Saturday 8 February, 2014
# Cultural Voice
# Cultural Voice
There is the lack of any serious radical political or cultural response to the current crisis in Ireland, writes Ciaran McCullagh.
# poetry - Tuesday 28 January, 2014
# Lets Get Cultural
# Lets Get Cultural
Yeats died 75 years ago today but his work is still being studied in schools across the country. Are there any lines still floating around in your heads from your schooldays?
# poetry - Tuesday 24 September, 2013
# RIP
# RIP
He (or his speechwriter) wrote an elegiac homily to the late Nobel laureate poet that evokes Heaney’s Mid-Term Break.
# poetry - Saturday 21 September, 2013
# Opinion
# Opinion
As a young woman, Salma was forced into a life of virtual isolation – in first her father’s and then her husband’s home. But when her raw and eloquent poetry finally found an audience, the reaction was explosive, writes filmmaker Kim Longinotto.
# poetry - Monday 2 September, 2013
# RIP
# RIP
Hundreds of people turned out to pay tribute to the renowned poet.
# Seamus Heaney
# Seamus Heaney
Heaney, a Derry native, had called Dublin his home for the past number of decades.
# Poetic Parliamentarian
# Poetic Parliamentarian
John Halligan said the poems will be based on his life in politics.
# poetry - Friday 30 August, 2013
# RIP
From The Daily Edge
# RIP
“Between my finger and my thumb…”
# Seamus Heaney
# Seamus Heaney
In a statement this lunchtime, the Taoiseach said that Heaney “was the keeper of the language, our codes, our essence as a people”
# RIP
# RIP
Remembering the life of Seamus Heaney in pictures.
# RIP
# RIP
The Nobel Laureate has died at the age of 74.
# poetry - Saturday 13 April, 2013
# Happy Birthday Seamus
From The Daily Edge
# Happy Birthday Seamus
Go Seamus, it’s yo birthday, we’re gonna party like it’s yo birthday.
# poetry - Saturday 23 March, 2013
# Nowruz
# Nowruz
Nowruz is a traditional festival to mark spring – and last night people from Ireland’s Afghan, Azerbaijani, Baha’I, Iranian, Kazakh, Kurdish and Turkish communities all gathered to celebrate it.
# poetry - Thursday 21 March, 2013
# Need To Know
# Need To Know
The things we learned, loved and shared today…
# PAPER 2 MEMORIES
From The Daily Edge
# PAPER 2 MEMORIES
Today is World Poetry Day, and it’s Leaving Cert Paper 2 all over again.
# poetry - Friday 4 January, 2013
# Homage
From The42
# Homage
‘Hail to the Tempest’ by Musa Okwonga paints the ex-United and Ireland footballer in a mythical light.
# poetry - Thursday 27 December, 2012
# Death
# Death
The 58-year-old died suddenly on Christmas Eve.
# poetry - Saturday 13 October, 2012
# Pop Quiz
# Pop Quiz
Go on, give it a go…
# poetry - Thursday 11 October, 2012
# Nobel
# Nobel
China’s Mo Yan has won the Nobel Literature Prize.
# poetry - Sunday 23 September, 2012
# Read Me
# Read Me
The Seamus Heaney poem ‘Mid-term Break’ always resonated with cystic fibrosis rights campaigner Orla Tinsley – and made her realise that life, though fragile, can be “calculated and powerful”.
# poetry - Wednesday 25 April, 2012
# Shakespeare
From The Daily Edge
# Shakespeare
Oxford University academics say the Bard had a little help on All’s Well that Ends Well – one of his best known plays.
# poetry - Thursday 29 March, 2012
# Powerful Words
# Powerful Words
An American poet,who declined the honour of receiving the National Medal for the Arts, is remembered.
# poetry - Friday 23 December, 2011
# Poetic Justice
From The Daily Edge
# Poetic Justice
A Pennsylvania state Supreme Court justice known for producing opinions in rhyme has done it again – writing six pages of verse in an insurance fraud case.
# poetry - Wednesday 21 December, 2011
# Seamus Heaney
# Seamus Heaney
The Nobel laureate has given a lifetime of literary papers, including early drafts of poems, notebooks and corrections.
# poetry - Friday 23 September, 2011
# Culture Night
# Culture Night
Culture Night kicks off this evening, with free art, music, theatre and dancing events taking place across the country – as well as galleries, churches and museums staying open late for the public. Check out some of tonight’s highlights…
# poetry - Thursday 22 September, 2011
# Fringe
From The Daily Edge
# Fringe
Each day for the 16 days of ABSOLUT Fringe 2011 in Dublin, we quiz the creatives on how they work, why they work – and their tips for the festival.
# poetry - Wednesday 21 September, 2011
# Opinion
From The Daily Edge
# Opinion
Denis Buckley has been a doorman and a welder but now that he’s a poet, he’s trying to define what exactly that value that holds at this time…
# Fringe
From The Daily Edge
# Fringe
Every day, TheJournal.ie brings you reader-generated reviews of the hottest tickets at the ABSOLUT Fringe Festival 2011.
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