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After launching its first-ever festival last year, Longford Pride is returning in 2025 for a fabulous celebration of the ...
Vandemonian Lags was performed for one night only on 23 May 2025 at the Melbourne Recital Centre. It tours to Her Majesty’s ...
Pride of the Déise, Waterford’s grassroots LGBTQ+ festival, is set to return in 2025 for an incredible celebration of the ...
Northern Ireland has marked the 80th anniversary of VE Day with a series of events to commemorate the end of fighting in Europe in World War Two. A number of activities, including historical talks ...
The 80th anniversary of VE Day was marked with events across Northern Ireland. Secretary of State Hilary Benn described an opportunity to remember the “huge sacrifice made by that great ...
Bottega Veneta is renowned for its commitment to craftsmanship and its distinctive no-logo design ethos, an approach that aligns with the quiet beauty of Xiuhua’s poetry.
The story of Irish Jews begins with journeys across the sea — from Kovno (modern-day Kaunas, Lithuania) to Cork City, where Ireland’s first modern Jewish community settled. While this ...
to pause, listen, to bustling shafts of long grass, the bending backs of rushes, sift of branches murmuring above us reminded me that chaos becomes too tricksy at times. You offered me your ...
The Yeats Building in Sligo is open from 10am to 9pm on Thursday to welcome poetry lovers. Everyone is being asked to bring a poem with them that they you love and maybe some wild flowers – any ...
Poetry Ireland invites everyone across the island of Ireland to celebrate Poetry Day Ireland 2025. With over 50 events taking place across every province and online, this year’s celebrations are ...
(Just beginning for you? It’s not too late to join our Poetry Challenge. Start on Day 1, and continue at your own pace.) Bliss and loss go together. This is an old idea in poetry. “Recuerdo ...
May 1 st is Poetry Day Ireland. Poetry Ireland have a different theme annually for the literary day. Last year was on the theme of ‘Good Sports’. I was delighted to write a poem about Gorey Park Run, ...