Colm Toibin, the great Irish poet and novelist, joins us now. So let's not fritter away any more time before he reads a poem. Colm, could you please read "Prayer To St. Agnes"? COLM TOIBIN: (Reading) ...
James Mele was born and raised in Bristol by parents of Italian and Irish descent. After receiving a B.A. from St. Lawrence University, he earned an M.A. in Anglo-Irish Studies from University College ...
In the foreword to this lyrical collection of stories in verse and poems, Shaw, a mythologist and storyteller, recalls an afternoon spent with Hoagland (who died in late 2018) looking out at the Irish ...
Her family believed she married below her station in life. She, the beautiful "dark Eileen," didn't care. She loved her man, Art O'Leary, who gave to her all that he could. He was handsome and kind, ...
Banter, buskers, and the Barras; single ends and smirry rain; the clockwork orange and that famous traffic cone ...
A mountain, a deer and a ghillie - a re-imagination of Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dobhrain. Show more Song of the Deer reimagines the monumental 18th Century Gaelic poem, Moladh Beinn Dobhrain - In ...
The McCooey surname has Armagh roots, deriving from the Gaelic name Mac Cumhaigh, meaning “son of Cú Mhaighe,” which ...
The question of national identity in Ireland is one which has a long and complicated history. Beginning in the 12th century, with the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland, the English colonial ...