THE Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition 2025 has been awarded to Jamie O’Halloran. Her winning poem, LEAF, was described as “shot-through with the attributes of what makes a piece of ...

Reading like the lyrics to a popular song or poem from modern times, ancient Greek poems have prompted new insights into ...

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.

Never throw away those old sketchbooks, because you never know what your doodles will inspire in the future as two Savannah artists discovered.

Hurling’s most successful skipper lost the proverbial armband for Limerick this season but there is no sense of demotion for the 32-year-old. 2023: Limerick playing captain Cian Lynch ...

Amy and Eoin Martin have won Home of the Year with their colourful 1970s home in Limerick. The couple live with their two sons and after they fell in love with the property, they completely gutted and ...

Limericks are one of the most famous forms of poetry in the Western world. Short and easily memorized, the five-line rhymes are often absurd and frequently obscene, as evidenced by the many ...

“When major declines occur ... that’s the time to heed these lines,” Buffet noted, pointing to Rudyard Kipling’s 19th century poem “If–.” “If you can keep your head when all about ...

The new Bachelor of Arts program at the University of Limerick is offering US students with an Associate’s Degree the chance to study in Ireland for just 2 additional years to complete their ...

In what was supposed to be the “trip of a lifetime” to reunite with family abroad, a Limerick family are now in the nightmarish process of repatriating the body of their mother from Canada.

Below, you’ll find a selection of amusing poetry: Some imagine fun fantasy scenarios, some are just well-constructed limericks that poke fun at nonsense and others are poems for kids that will ...

By Tas Tobey Tas Tobey is on the staff of the Book Review and is studying poetry in the M.F.A. program at the City College of New York. When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...