# Poetry
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Last year
2023
Voices
Tony Duffin: Shane MacGowan was more than a Fairytale…
Tony Duffin
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30 Nov 2023
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All time
tributes
President leads tributes to 'two great poets' Mhac an tSaoi and Kennelly
18 Oct 2021
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Voices
Opinion: Yeats' poetry helped shape Ireland and appears on the Leaving Cert - now the Yeats Society is under threat
Susan O’Keeffe
17 Jun 2021
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chapter and verse
'For what they love, they both put down a gun' - The GAA's place in Irish poetry
30 Apr 2020
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Poetry
'Finding a voice, where they found a vision': Eavan Boland's powerful voice for women is remembered
28 Apr 2020
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RIP
'The foremost female poet of her generation': Eavan Boland has died aged 75
Updated
27 Apr 2020
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Covid-19
'My sister is not a statistic': High emotion on Liveline as woman recites poem for her deceased sister
14 Apr 2020
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Wintering Out
The story behind the Seamus Heaney quote guiding people through the Covid-19 crisis
5 Apr 2020
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The Luckiest Guy Alive
John Cooper Clarke: 'I heard on the news that Bono's leather pants were robbed, so I put it to rhyme'
3 Mar 2019
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seeing things
Seamus Heaney letters, diaries and manuscripts on display to the public from tomorrow
5 Jul 2018
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randomer
'This country has been so unloved. People go on about 800 years of oppression, it's 800 years of rejection'
18 Mar 2018
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Voices
Varadkar admitting he wasn't fully aware of Kerry Babies shows importance of retelling our stories
Annemarie Ni Churreain
20 Jan 2018
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i will arise and go now
Old Georgian House to be transformed into new home for Irish poetry... and it has some major backers
14 Jan 2018
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Writing
'My teacher told me not to get my hopes of an A in the Junior Cert up - now I'm on the syllabus'
19 Aug 2017
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Save the Date
A Maze in Cork, a Firestorm in Clare and a VR party in Offaly: Culture Night is back
9 Aug 2017
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Voices
'I think people understanding that they aren't alone in their torment has a healing element to it'
Shane Koyczan.
14 May 2017
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lingo festival
"Art's job is to question the status quo, not to ever accept it" - Spoken word and social change
20 Oct 2016
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Voices
'One way of healing yourself is to own your story': Growing up in an abusive home
Connie Robberts
1 Aug 2016
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dead and gone
Yeats didn't come up in the English exam yesterday and the Leaving Certs are RAGING
10 Jun 2016
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Take a Break
Get ready for an avalanche of Chinese poetry on the Dart this fortnight
2 Feb 2016
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lingo festival
"There are a lot of dead poets on tea towels in tourist shops - this is about live poetry"
15 Oct 2015
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quite the character
Alan Shatter's been having a pop at the Twitterati. Via the medium of poetry.
9 Jul 2015
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come on eilean
Every Leaving Cert has the same prayer about tomorrow's English Paper II
3 Jun 2015
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Poetry
This Enda Kenny Instagram comment is the greatest Instagram comment of all time
17 May 2015
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