The late Eavan Boland, one of Ireland’s great poets, has won this year’s @CostaBookAwards poetry prize for her final collection ‘The Historians’. @mumstrokesactor Eileen Walsh recorded this beautiful version of her poem ‘Mother Ireland’ for us last year. Carcanet Press

Rosamund Taylor's gorgeous poem 'Ivittuut' on display in Fitzgerald's Park, Cork. Huge thanks to Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann for their gracious support. Gratitude to Cork City Libraries & Creative Ireland 🩶 poetryireland.ie/whats-on/poetr…

History, Language & Memory - Louis de Paor's Cork through poetry & interviews - lovely programme from RTÉ lyric fm Lyric Feature Bloodaxe Books Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/…

Happy Mother's Day! 💞 We'd like to share this beautiful poem 'Mother' by Enda Wyley from Poetry Ireland Review Issue 54. 🌸 Enda Wyley Thank you to the mothers, grandmothers, and mother figures who shape our world with love, patience, and care. #MothersDay #IrishPoetry

Huge congratulations to #MarieHowe on winning the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry 2025 for her New & Selected Poems. This retrospective was published in 2024 by W. W. Norton & Company in the US and by Bloodaxe Books in the UK & Ireland (as What the Earth Seemed to Say). bloodaxebooks.com/news?articleid…

Now plants not seen for years germinate seed & pollen … sprout ferny leaves & blooms; soften the wounded earth with myrtle & gum saplings, counter human failings & greed with a wilderness of native trees, have us dream of the paradise given; our abundant heaven. Catherine

.. the February storm that brought down the ancient oaks & shook the rafters, that grounded planes, that closed all the ports, Picked us up & threw us together. Like refugees newly come to town we made stern language of beauty all spring into the summer’s stretched light Paula

"In August 1902, AE arrived home to find a young James Joyce sitting on his doorstep in Rathgar. Having listened to his poems, AE pronounced ‘Young man, there is not enough chaos in you to be a poet.’ Fran O'Rourke is next with Myriad-Minded Man -- George Russell (AE) #Bloomsday

‘But it’s no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That’s not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it’s the very opposite of that that is really life. … Love, says Bloom. I mean the opposite of hatred.’ My favourite quote from #Ulysses.

Today we are celebrating the🎉7th Anniversary🎉of the exhibition launch! We continue to welcome people from all over the world who leave inspired by Seamus Heaney’s words. This quote is from an event marking his donation of his archive to the National Library of Ireland in 2011.

Congratulations to Vona Groarke. Exciting news! Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann The Poetry Society Ted Smyth Daniel Mulhall limerickliteraryfest

Catherine Phil MacCarthy Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann The Poetry Society Daniel Mulhall limerickliteraryfest Hereafter and In Flight are must reads from this original and gifted poet and writer. Glucksman Ireland House NYU NYU Press Irish Consulate NYC Daniel Mulhall Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann Catherine Phil MacCarthy Global Irish Studies The Culture Ireland

Be inspired by Ireland’s rich tradition of myth and magic! Join us this Saturday 9th August at 12pm for our children’s drawing workshop ‘An Adventure Through Irish Mythology' using Marie Heaney’s ‘Names Upon the Harp,’ as a guide. Ages 8 - 12. Book here: nli.ie/exhibitions-ev…

INSIGHTS with Samantha Holman - AI and Creative Expression 📅October 8, 2025 🕜11am-1pm 💻Online masterclass 🎟️€10 admission 🔗Link in Bio The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Today is the 250th anniversary of the birth of Daniel O’Connell, the most renowned Irishman of the 19th century. His influence as a political reformer was felt across Europe and in the USA where he was revered by anti-slavery campaigners. rte.ie/news/2025/0806…

Brilliant review of Celia de Fréine's debut short fiction collection *Even Still* in Irish Examiner written by Laura Cassidy. irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts… BUY: booksupstairs.ie/product/even-s… Kennys (free Irish post): kennys.ie/shop/even-stil… Blackwells (free international postage)

When we are gone, the house will close over us as though we’d been swimmers in an unmoved sea. The cisterns will unruffle, the fridge will wheeze on, and the shape we made in the bed will pucker out. The house will replace us with sounds of its own: Vona Groarke

Now it is Easter & the speckled bean Breaks underground, the liquid snail Winces and waits, trapped on the lawn’s light green; The burdened clothes-line heaves & barks in the gale, And lost in flowers near the garage wall Child and mother fumble, tidy, restrain. Thomas Kinsella

Joseph O'Connor: My Greatest Lesson Learned youtu.be/uegy-EcAUp4?fe… via YouTube