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# Poet

This week
26th November 2023 - 2nd December 2023
Tony Duffin: Shane MacGowan was more than a Fairytale…
Following the passing of Shane MacGowan, Tony Duffin reflects on the impact of Shane’s work on him in London during the 1980’s.
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Celebrated poet Brendan Kennelly dies aged 85
During his lifetime, Kennelly wrote over 20 books of poetry, along with plays, novels and criticism.
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Oct 17th 2021, 8:20 PM
'His legacy is immense': Irish poet Derek Mahon has died, aged 78
His poem Everything Is Going To Be All Right brought solace after the pandemic broke out in March.
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Oct 2nd 2020, 2:01 PM
'The foremost female poet of her generation': Eavan Boland has died aged 75
Boland published her first book of poetry in 1962 and went on to become a writer-in-residence at Trinity College Dublin and UCD.
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Apr 27th 2020, 10:32 PM
State spends €650k on WB Yeats' furniture and letters to his wife
In the past two years, the State has spent €4 million on archive material once belonging to the great Irish poet.
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Sep 27th 2017, 3:24 PM
Bohs appoint Irish football's first ever 'Poet in Residence'
Will he wander lonely as a cloud?
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Feb 19th 2015, 9:26 PM
One day I was broke... then I got a call that changed everything
Colm Keegan is the new writer-in-residence at DLR Lexicon library in Dun Laoghaire.
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Dec 25th 2014, 5:00 PM
Ireland's 'poet of the people' honoured for a lifetime's great work
‘Daddy, Daddy,’ I cried, ‘Pass out the moon,’
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Oct 28th 2014, 1:56 PM
Seamus Heaney honoured with 'Poetry House' in hometown of Bellaghy
The event was supported by his family.
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Aug 31st 2014, 4:15 PM
Meet the world’s most talented 70-year-old goalkeeper
In addition to regularly playing for Papiano, Lamberto Boranga is also a poet, doctor and world-record-holding athlete.
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Oct 27th 2013, 9:22 AM
Column: How did this young woman scandalise her entire village? By writing poetry.
As a young woman, Salma was forced into a life of virtual isolation – in first her father’s and then her husband’s home. But when her raw and eloquent poetry finally found an audience, the reaction was explosive, writes filmmaker Kim Longinotto.
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Sep 21st 2013, 12:00 PM
Have you read Paul Simon's moving tribute to Seamus Heaney yet?
The singer-songwriter writes of his conversations with the literary great in Dublin and in Manhattan, and says there are “few poets” he would rank as Heaney’s equal.
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Sep 5th 2013, 10:04 PM
“Don’t be afraid”: Seamus Heaney’s final words remembered at poignant goodbye
Hundreds of people turned out to pay tribute to the renowned poet.
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Sep 2nd 2013, 11:20 PM
The New York Times pays tribute to Seamus Heaney
“His lines could embody a dark, marshy melancholy, but as often as not they also communicated the wild onrushing joy of being alive.”
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Aug 31st 2013, 2:18 PM
Here’s What Happened Today: Friday
Everyone’s talking about the death of Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney and the US moving closer to military intervention in Syria.
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Aug 30th 2013, 10:56 PM
Taoiseach: 'Seamus Heaney's death brings great sorrow to Ireland'
In a statement this lunchtime, the Taoiseach said that Heaney “was the keeper of the language, our codes, our essence as a people”
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Aug 30th 2013, 1:07 PM
Poet Seamus Heaney passes away aged 74
The Nobel laureate recently suffered from ill health, and was reported have collapsed earlier this week.
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Aug 30th 2013, 11:11 AM
QUIZ: How well do you know Seamus Heaney?
Go Seamus, it’s yo birthday, we’re gonna party like it’s yo birthday.
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Apr 13th 2013, 1:00 PM
Videos: Tributes to the late poet Dennis O'Driscoll
The 58-year-old died suddenly on Christmas Eve.
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Dec 27th 2012, 8:14 AM
National Library releases documents from Roger Casement's incarceration
Materials include portraits, documents relating to the degradation of his knighthood and touching letters to his family in the final days before his execution.
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Dec 21st 2012, 7:45 AM
Adrienne Rich dies aged 82
An American poet,who declined the honour of receiving the National Medal for the Arts, is remembered.
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Mar 29th 2012, 6:06 PM
Chinese dissident poet charged with subversion
Veteran democracy activist Zhu Yufu has been charged with attempting to subvert the state by writing the poem urging the Chinese people to “use your feet and take to the square”.
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Jan 18th 2012, 4:02 PM
Remains of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda to be exhumed
The poet and politician died in 1973 at the age 69 in a clinic in Santiago – but now Chile’s Communisty Party is asking for his remains to be exhumed to see if he has been poisoned.
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Dec 6th 2011, 9:40 AM
Tomas Tranströmer wins Nobel literature prize
The 80-year-old Swedish poet was named this year’s winner to loud cheers at a press conference in Stockholm.
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Oct 6th 2011, 12:30 PM