Walt Whitman
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Australia’s first national poet – An Irishman’s Diary on Bernard O’Dowd
- Opinion
- November 22, 2020, 17:01
Bernard O’Dowd was Australia’s first national poet. This son of Catholic immigrants from Ulster was born in Australia in 1866. Described as “a radical(...)

Keith Duggan: How we could all do with a dose of that Italia 90 feeling just now
- International
- June 26, 2020, 06:00
This summer will go down as the strangest that Ireland has ever experienced- except for those hallucinogenic few weeks that were Italia 90. Thirty yea(...)

Screen and stage star Rip Torn has died at the age of 88. Torn made his reputation in the works of Tennessee Williams and played roles as diverse as (...)

Walt’s Partner – a Limerick man beloved of Walt Whitman
- Opinion
- May 31, 2019, 00:01
Born 200 years ago on Friday, Walt Whitman is now best remembered for his epic poem Leaves of Grass, which if it didn’t invent free verse, was certain(...)

The miracle of lilac: long-living, sweet-smelling and very easy to grow
- Gardens
- May 18, 2019, 00:00
What is it about a lilac in full bloom that so touches the heart? The poet and essayist Walt Whitman called this woody plant’s intensely perfumed flow(...)

Mary Oliver, prize-winning poet, dies at 83
- Books
- January 18, 2019, 05:00
Mary Oliver, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work, with its plain language and minute attention to the natural world, drew a wide following while (...)

Thinking Anew – A message of hope for people everywhere
- Religion & Beliefs
- May 19, 2018, 00:01
As first steps are taken on the road to a peace on the Korean peninsula it is worth remembering that when Jesus spoke about peace he was thinking abou(...)

Lost in translation – An Irishman’s Diary on the hidden depths of Hiberno-English
- Opinion
- February 8, 2018, 00:01
After a recent column here about the dubious honour of being addressed as “sir” (or even “sore”) in Dublin, several readers reminded me of a passage i(...)

Wellington Rd townhouse with links to Wilde, Yeats
- New to Market
- May 4, 2017, 10:00
If the walls of a property could only talk and recount the events of its lifetime, 61 Wellington Road would have some interesting recollections. Recor(...)

Bob Dylan could tackle changing times in Nobel speech
- Music
- December 9, 2016, 13:00
I’m listening to Billy Joe Shaver And I’m reading James Joyce Some people they tell me I got the blood of the land in my voice For those still wond(...)