Joanne writes in Irish and English. She is published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, Rattle, Aneas, Comhar, The Honest Ulsterman, Howl, The Four Faced Liar and others. She was selected for ...

After a slew of executive orders came down from the Trump administration over the last few weeks, in Massachusetts this week, Governor Maura Healey issued one of her own, creating the position of a ...

Our Poetry Book of the Month reviews include two invigorating releases by Diane Seuss and a dark, posthumous collection by Tove Ditlevsen Alongside Terrance Hayes, Diane Seuss has a strong case to ...

The Dubliner is Boston’s hottest Irish pub right now, and the newly opened McGonagle’s Pub in Dorchester is right on track to join the ranks as a local favorite. Both are welcoming ...

The IFI was set up by the Irish and British governments as an independent organisation in 1986 and is supported by international donors including US, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand ...

If I felt slightly silly coming to this ancient tourist trap every year, I was comforted that arguably the world’s coolest tourist, the exiled Russian, Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky ...

Irish President Michael D Higgins and his wife Sabina with Holocaust survivors Suzi Diamond (left) and Tomi Reichenthal (second left) as they arrive at a Holocaust Memorial Day event Israeli ...

Recruitment firm Hays Ireland is consulting with its staff about redundancies because of what it said was “a more cautious hiring market”. The news that 21 of the firm’s 126 Irish staff are ...

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.

Irish poet Michael Longley has died aged 85. The acclaimed poet was born in Belfast in July 1939 and lived in the city until his death. Mr Longley went to school at Royal Belfast Academical ...

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, acting swiftly, have begun rounding up undocumented migrants in Irish-dense cities such as Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, targeting what officials ...

Our critic A.O. Scott shows you what he loves about it. Isabella Cotier By A.O. Scott Poems aren’t pictures, but sometimes they try to make us see, and to make us feel in ways we might associate ...