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 ...

GAVIN & Stacey star Ruth Jones will tell the country what’s occurring on the high seas this New Year’s Day – as she presents ...

With the last ever episode of Gavin & Stacey aired on Christmas Day, fans will get to hear Ruth Jones reprise her role as ...

Love, life and crimes: these are the best books of 2024, according to The Australian’s literary critics. It’s hard to choose ...

Kristof: So let’s go back to the Nativity. Of the four Gospels, two describe the virgin birth of Jesus and two don’t mention ...

Lucy Murphy, from St Mary's Secondary School in Ballina, has been recognised as a finalist in this year’s Poetry Aloud ...

Meán Scoil Mhuire, Longford students Kanyinsola Richard Akinyemi and Weronika Kostyra have been recognised as finalists in ...

As much a Dystopian novel as a book of non-fiction, Annie Jacobson's Nuclear War is a terrifyingly accurate portrait about ...

The poem I really should commit to memory is Seamus Heaney’s “Postscript” (“the earthed lightning of a flock of swans”; ”You are neither here nor there, / A hurry through which known ...

The Poetry Exchange is a project and podcast ... They embrace the old and the new, famous poets such as Seamus Heaney, Edward Thomas, and Gerard Manley Hopkins as well as newer names.