He links and contrasts Bonny’s story with that of Savita Halappanavar, whose death in 2012, due in part to the restrictive ...

Kilkenny Arts Festival has announced the premiere of a new opera, Custom of the Coast, exploring the lives of Savita Halappanavar and Anne Bonny.

The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation has unveiled an impressive lineup for its Spring Author Events Series, featuring ...

Opera, and theatre to the fore, while festival will also return to Castle Yard with a new and unmissable acrobatic spectacle ...

The death of the poet, writer and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby at the age of 82 has been confirmed by his family. He died in a nursing home in Clontarf, Co Dublin. The popular author was a familiar ...

We may earn a commission from your purchases. As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well.

Paul Hetherington has worked with, edited and been on judging panels with numerous poets. In the last decade, he has collaborated with Distinguished Professor Cassandra Atherton on various ...

and his life and writings symbolise a synthesis of the two different cultures,” Paul E Losensky and Sunil Sharma wrote in their introduction to In the Bazaar of Love (2011), a collection of Khusrau’s ...

Dublin poet and broadcaster Pat Ingoldsby has died at the age of 82 in a nursing home in Clontarf in Dublin. Mr Ingoldsby, who was born in Malahide on August 25th, 1942, is survived by his ...

The shortlist for the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize 2025 has been announced by the Trinity Oscar Wilde Centre. This is the seventh year of the prize, awarded annually for an ...

Floyd Mayweather couldn’t help but laugh when he was asked about his reaction to the Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight. During an appearance on “The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon,” Mayweather ...