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The Irish For: Where old ghosts meet - the story behind On Raglan Road
Irish poetry is a story often told from the perspective of the unrequited lover, but rarely from one who goes in to the affair knowing it is doomed, writes Darach Ó Séaghdha
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Dec 26th 2019, 8:30 AM
'Crouched Burial': An award-winning poem before bedtime
A poem from this year’s Hennessy Awards Winner for Emerging Poetry, Una Mannion.
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Mar 29th 2017, 7:30 PM
Hundreds of Irish people came together to write this beautiful poem about our little country
It’d bring a tear to a glass eye.
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Dec 20th 2016, 11:15 AM
History-maker Gianluigi Buffon wrote a fantastic open letter to the goal he protects
The 38-year-old has 154 Italy caps and has appeared over 400 times for Juventus.
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Mar 22nd 2016, 1:24 PM
'Happy moments we've shared have almost melted like snow' - brother's touching tribute to missing sister
His poem was read as part of national Missing Persons Day.
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Dec 3rd 2015, 5:25 PM
Apache Pizza delivered the cutest poem on a pizza box at the weekend
Special delivery.
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Nov 30th 2015, 11:01 AM
Everyone is sharing this poem with an uplifting hidden meaning
It’s all about perspective.
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Jul 22nd 2015, 9:53 PM
This kid handed in the most ingenious homework we have ever seen
Nailed it.
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Apr 9th 2015, 4:01 PM
People have been writing beautiful things about falling in love on the Northside
Just wonderful.
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Mar 11th 2015, 8:00 PM
The President announced Ireland's favourite poem of the past 100 years, can you guess?
Clue: “When all the others were away at Mass”.
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Mar 11th 2015, 5:51 PM
Ireland's 'poet of the people' honoured for a lifetime's great work
‘Daddy, Daddy,’ I cried, ‘Pass out the moon,’
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Oct 28th 2014, 1:56 PM
Watch one Leitrim poet's passionate portrayal of modern Ireland
Keep your lattes and skinny jeans.
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Jun 11th 2014, 12:22 PM
Irish author Colum McCann’s moving ode to Robbie Keane
The Dubliner’s work featured on the latest episode of MLS Insider.
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Oct 25th 2013, 9:38 PM

A poem for Willie Bermingham: a man with 'a dream for the lame and old'
Dublin City Council is currently considering what to name the new Dublin bridge – among the Irish men and women whose names have been put forward is Dublin firefighter and charity founder Willie Bermingham.
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Aug 30th 2013, 7:00 PM
VIDEOS: Seamus Heaney on life, love and poetry
The Nobel Laureate has died at the age of 74.
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Aug 30th 2013, 11:21 AM
'The patron saint of the clenched fist' - Poet pays tribute to Roy Keane
‘Hail to the Tempest’ by Musa Okwonga paints the ex-United and Ireland footballer in a mythical light.
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Jan 4th 2013, 9:29 AM