Michael Longley will be recognised as one of the greatest poets that Ireland has ever produced, and it has long been my belief that his work is of the level that would be befitting of a Nobel Prize ...

I have always accepted the finite nature of this life, but as I float toward my mid-seventies, a new navigation chart is being unrolled.

Poetry at the Mansion series for 2025 will include events that explore satire, love and lust, holidays and much more ...

Poems of love and lust by John Donne and Elizabeth Barrett ... Patti Allis Mengers is the wife of David P. Kozinski, who hosts Poetry at Rockwood ...

Dickens lived at Doughty Street with his wife and son. He wrote parts of many ... The show will also exhibit love poems from the author’s early years. Portrait of Charles Dickens, Margaret ...

The Omagh Bombing Inquiry remembers Avril Monaghan, who was pregnant with twins, her daughter Maura, and mother Mary Grimes.

Who is Cupid and why does he get to decide who falls in love? Explore the Roman rituals of Valentine’s Day and the mythology ...

I sang along, loud. I think I might be becoming a very patriotic Mexican. Viva La Presidenta! Well, at least they elected a woman president. My wife, Jill, and I spent Christmas again in Mexico City, ...

Charles Dickens’ home in London was saved from demolition. Instead, it became the Charles Dickens Museum, a small space on Doughty Street dedicated to the 19th-century writer’s legacy. To celebrate ...

The origin of Groundhog Day in America traces to the fervent religious beliefs of German-speaking immigrants in the 1800s.

Good morning, fare companions. Our first challenge comes from T. Square, who reports that he "read an article in The Wall ...

Losing a partner, parent or child is the hardest, most heartbreaking experience – and death affects people in different ways.