John Boorman once said: “Movie-making is the process of turning money into light.” The publishers of Old Ireland in Colour have discovered that turning black and white photographs into colour

The late Eavan Boland has posthumously won the Costa Poetry Award for her final collection, The Historians, described by the judges as having “some of the finest lines of poetry

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“Strange Flowers” by Donal Ryan is the January selection for IrishCentral’s Book Club. Each month, we will pick a new Irish book or a great book by an Irish author and

What have classical Greece and Rome to do with Ireland and its politics? Readers will be familiar with the many Irish literary artists who have drawn from the well of

On a December evening in Stockholm, Seamus Heaney delivered his acceptance speech for the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. “I credit poetry,” Heaney said, “both for being itself and for

For a small country, Ireland is internationally renowned for its literary prowess, and 2020 has produced a wealth of excellent Irish-authored books. The COVID-19 pandemic has exerted its influence over most

AFTER navigating your way through two national lockdowns you may find that you’ve read all the books that previously sat idle on your bedside table. Luckily for you, we’ve got a

The Moth Poetry Prize is one of the biggest prizes in the world for a single unpublished poem. The Moth Poetry Prize is open to anyone, as long as the