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'Hospitals are very difficult places to be' - Irish doctors use poetry to tackle pandemic

A group of Irish medics have been prescribing themselves poetry, amid the stresses and strains of working at the front line of the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr Stephen Hatton first thought about starting a poetry society in the depths of winter 2020, as ...

23 Dec 2021 at 12:37

Mountmellick

WATCH: Phenomenal women marry poetry and sport in Mountmellick

17 Sept 2021 at 13:23

Arts & Entertainment

Mountmellick transforms into the Laois hive of verse as Poetry Town Laois

Mountmellick will be a hive of poetic activity over the next week under the banner of Poetry Town an initiative of Poetry Ireland in partnership with Local Authority Arts Offices. This is a new all-island initiative, which will see more than a ...

10 Sept 2021 at 09:53

Mountmellick

Poetry Ireland announces Poet Laureate for Mountmellick

Poetry Ireland has announced the names of the Poet Laureates selected as part of the Poetry Town initiative, which will see more than a hundred poetry-related activities take place in 20 towns across the island of Ireland between 10th and ...

17 Aug 2021 at 13:23

Arts & Entertainment

Electric Picnic reveals details of NEW area on grounds of popular festival

Electric Picnic has revealed details of a new area on the grounds of the popular festival. Imelda May and Wallis Bird are just two of the confirmed acts performing at Croí, the brand-new source of positive energy and joy at the core of ...

05 Aug 2023 at 12:04

Northern Ireland

Seamus Heaney’s widow watches on as Joe Biden cites work of late Irish poet

An emotional Marie Heaney, widow of Seamus Heaney, watched on as Joe Biden cited one of the late Nobel laureate’s best-known works in his Oireachtas address. Heaney, who died in 2013, is one of the best-known modern Irish poets and ...

13 Apr 2023 at 19:47

National News

'It should be done everywhere' - Patients at Irish hospital receive poetry postcards

Patients and staff at a Waterford hospital have received postcards featuring poems as part of an annual wellbeing festival. The Well Festival of Arts and Wellbeing's 'Fancy a Lift?' series 2023 distributed the poetry postcards to ...

19 Feb 2023 at 16:52

Arts & Entertainment

'So much kind support' - Irish poetry publisher close to fundraising goal for literary centre

Ireland's largest poetry publisher is close to achieving its fundraising goal to purchase a new property for their bookshop and literary centre. Salmon Poetry established The Salmon Bookshop and Literary Centre in 2012 in ...

20 Nov 2023 at 15:23

Arts & Entertainment

Jamaican-Irish founder of poetry charity aims to help young men discuss their feelings

A South London-based charity is using poetry as an outlet to “give young people a voice” and says writing poems is helping young people, especially men, feel safe discussing their feelings. Poetic Unity, a grassroots ...

25 May 2023 at 10:24

Poetry competition launched in memory of former Sinn Féin man Martin McGuinness

Arts & Entertainment

Martin McGuinness Poetry Competition launched - Donegal poets encouraged to enter

The Martin McGuinness Peace Foundation has announced plans to hold a poetry competition in his memory. Paul Kavanagh is the spokesperson for the Foundation. "Martin’s love of poetry was well-known, whether it was ...

28 Jan 2021 at 15:26

National News

Acclaimed poet Gerald Dawe dies after battling a long illness

Heartfelt tributes have been paid to the poet Gerald (Gerry) Dawe, who has died aged 72. The critically acclaimed Belfast-born poet and academic has died after battling a long illness. He died at home in the ...

30 May 2024 at 14:19

Portlaoise

Laois woman publishes new book which 'celebrates life'

Family, people and places are at the heart of a new book that has just been published by Portlaoise woman, Denise Curtin Dunne. The book is a collection of Denise’s poetry which she says celebrates life. “I ...

08 Aug 2017 at 18:20

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