The competition challenges second-level students across the island of Ireland to recite a prescribed poem from memory.

Freedom is a word that turns up with embarrassing frequency in rock-and-roll songs. How we love to free-associate about ...

As an English teacher, one of my favourite poems to teach, to pupils of almost all ages, is Chinua Achebe’s ‘Vultures’. In ...

The BBC on Wednesday celebrates 100 years of a weather forecast for sailors in British waters that has inspired musicians and ...