Fiona Benson is the author of four poetry collections: Bright Travellers, Vertigo & Ghost, Ephemeron and Midden Witch (forthcoming). All three of her published collections have been shortlisted for ...

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 ...

Housman was, as Auden put it in his fine, admiring poem, the ‘Latin Scholar of his generation’, but his approach to classical literature was ostentatiously arid, as though deliberately to keep ...

Speaking of imagining, a plan like Maui’s needs to capture people’s imagination in order to give them hope and keep them ...

In 1946 Evelyn Waugh declared that 20th-century society – ‘the century of the common man’, as he put it – was so degenerate that satire was no longer possible. But before reaching that conclusion he ...

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This selection of the President’s magazine columns is a diverse collection of journalism from the left of the Irish political ...