On St. Patrick's Day, a quick look at famous Irish poets visiting Chicago, with a nod to other newcomers whose poetry we have ...

American poet WH Auden's words, "marble well-governed cities" full of "vines and olive trees." But Israel and its allies have turned it into "an artificial wilderness" ...

And while Irish teenagers’ technical literacy is second only to those in Singapore, there is scant evidence that this ...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot holdMere anarchy is loosed upon the world……The best lack all conviction, while the worst ...

Jean Stimmell is a retired stone mason and psychotherapist living in Northwood. He blogs at jeanstimmell.blogspot.com and ...

as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

Michael Joseph O’Rahilly, who was born 150 years ago on April 22nd, gave himself the title “The O’Rahilly” from the Gaelic ...

Why do we love to drink wine? As we’re slap-bang in the middle of Lent, it occurs to me that rather than tempt you (should ...

An appreciation of South African playwright Athol Fugard, whose plays that bore witness to the cruelty of apartheid, including 'Blood Knot,' 'Boesman and Lena,' 'A Lesson From Aloes' and 'My Children!

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Randee Dawn shares how a book of folk tales by W.B. Yeats was a "lightbulb moment" for ...