The Irish have a rich tradition of storytelling and poetry, with their language full of colorful and insightful sayings and phrases that reflect their history, culture, and values. Irish sayings ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

Michael Longley, who has died aged 85, was a poet whose graceful and careful work made him one of the most cherished writers of Northern Ireland and, for some, the English-reading world.

Themes of identity and belonging dominate these poems. In The Forty Foot a swim in sea runs alongside poignant scenes from an Irish citizenship ceremony, “And though I’d cried as a guest at my ...