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 ...

Things fall apart; the centre cannot holdMere anarchy is loosed upon the world……The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.- The Second Coming, a poem by W.B. Yeats ...

And yet Allingham’s most ambitious work, the epic poem Laurence Bloomfield, was a portrait of the much troubled Ireland as a ...

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

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 ...

I am reminded of “The Second Coming,” a well-known poem by W.B. Yeats, written in very unsettled times ... This tide has swallowed all the rituals of innocence. The best people aren’t motivated to act ...

Pre-occupation Palestine had, to use Anglo-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 ...

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" ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for ...

Hardly any English-language poetry written during successive waves of bubonic plague ... and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste ...

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!