How to plan a summer day at Dollymount, a little piece of heaven on the edge of our capital city... For Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1, listen to Dollymount Beach, by Maeve Edwards above: When ...

BACKGROUND Asthma, post-nasal drip syndrome (PNDS), and gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) account for many cases of chronic non-productive cough (CNPC). Each may simultaneously contribute to cough even ...

Unfortunately for the minister, it appears that Heaney didn’t write this, despite what Google has to say on the matter. Most websites attribute the quote to Heaney, but it was actually written by the ...

Luck and art are clearest in retrospect. I arrived at Harvard as most eighteen-year-olds arrive at Harvard: with a grandiose sense of endeavor and a below-average understanding of the way that most ...

Framed by its mighty Cliffs of Moher, the Burren region of western Ireland is a wonder of lunar landscapes, megalithic monuments, and beautiful botany. The 205-square-mile UNESCO Global Geopark is one ...

Ahead of a Dublin exhibition of the poet’s archive, the Heaney family explain how they put together a new collection to reflect his life as a husband and father, as well as a Nobel laureate In 2011, ...

Five years after the jolt of Seamus Heaney's unexpected death we are back at a moment. Back with Heaney, whose poems resonate with the rhythm of the lives of those he touched – casual reader, familiar ...

It’s natural to think of winter in Ireland as the season when nature pulls down the blinds. Light fades, leaves fall, vegetation withers and swallows fly south. Natural, but quite wrong for birds.

Derek Walcott was a complicated person and a great poet, and often those things are not divisible. The time I spent with him and his beautiful German-born partner, Sigrid Nama, in Derek’s native St.

Meeting the artist Melita Denaro leaves your heart blown open, much like a moment Seamus Heaney describes in Postscript, where a "drive out west" will catch the "heart off guard and blow it open".