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Fighting Words: A poem by Victoria Zylka, Mount Carmel Secondary School, Rotunda, Dublin

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  • May 17, 2022

Fighting Words: A poem by Zuzanna Krzeminska and Julija Bozic, Mount Carmel Secondary School, Rotunda, Dublin 1

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  • Sorcha McSwiney
  • May 17, 2022

Fighting Words: A poem by Sorcha McSwiney

Katherine Duffy’s poetry collections include Talking the Owl Away (Templar Poetry, 2018) and Sorrow’s Egg (The Dedalus Press, 2011) Poem of the week: The Persistence of a Certain Street in Rain
  • Katherine Duffy
  • May 14, 2022

By Katherine Duffy

Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Severodonetsk, in the Donbas region of Ukraine on April 7th. Photograph: Fadel Senna/ AFP via Getty New poetry: Rites by Sean O’Brien; KIA by Sasha Dugdale
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  • May 7, 2022

Gerald Dawe. Photograph: Bobbie Hanvey/The Gallery Press Poem of the week: The Lost by Gerald Dawe
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  • April 30, 2022

Dermot Bolger Poem of the week: The Dancers in a Wicklow Field by Dermot Bolger
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  • April 23, 2022

Before removal: Statue of the Christ on the Cross at the Saints Peter and Paul Garrison church on March 2nd. Photograph: Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Poem of the week: Christ in Lviv
  • Maurice Quirke
  • April 16, 2022

by Maurice Quirke

Ukrainian emergency employees and volunteers carry an injured pregnant woman from a maternity hospital damaged by shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/File/AP Photo Sheltering: A new poem by Paddy Bushe
  • Paddy Bushe
  • April 9, 2022

Eva Bourke is a member of Aosdána. Photograph: Miriam de Burca Poem of the week: Jour Fixe
  • Eva Bourke
  • April 2, 2022

A new poem by Eva Bourke

Gerard Reidy Poem of the week: Paris by Night
  • Gerard Reidy
  • March 26, 2022

A new poem by Gerard Reidy

Paddy Moloney, founder of the Chieftains. Photograph: Greg Kahn/The New York Times The Uilleann Piper: A new poem in memory of Paddy Moloney
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  • March 19, 2022

By Eileen Casey

Breda Joyce Poem of the week: Funeral Shoes
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  • March 12, 2022

A new poem by Breda Joyce

Gerry Murphy Poem of the week: My Last Day as an Altar Boy
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  • February 26, 2022

A new poem by Gerry Murphy

Gillian Clarke An Egret at Portmeirion
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  • February 19, 2022

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Poet Gabriel Fitzmaurice. Poem of the week: Old Lovers by Gabriel Fitzmaurice
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  • February 12, 2022

Pat Boran Poem of the week: Hedge school
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  • February 5, 2022

A new poem by Pat Boran

Fred Johnston’s most recent collection is Rogue States. Winter Sunday by Ben Keatinge; Door by Fred Johnston
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  • January 29, 2022

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  • January 22, 2022

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Poet Enda Wyley. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh Poem of the week: Daughter by Enda Wyley
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  • January 15, 2022

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Kikuyu tribe members held in an internment camp by the British government, during the Mau Mau rebellion: Atrocities raise “unanswered questions about violence in the British empire”. Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch/Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis via Getty Images) Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire
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