Pádraig Ó Tuama on the fear and relief of admitting the truth

I think joy and melancholy have a lot to say to each other,” Pádraig Ó Tuama tells Rachel. In his poetry, he allows that ...
The New Yorker

Pádraig Ó Tuama’s Poetic Spirituality

One evening this fall, Pádraig Ó Tuama, an Irish poet who lives in Belfast, entered a Bloomsbury bookshop several blocks from one of Virginia Woolf’s former homes. Ó Tuama, who is forty-seven and has ...
Irish Examiner

Behind the lines of Seán Ó Ríordáin: A poet’s isolation

Seán Ó Ríordáin's diaries give an insight into the poet's isolation and illness, as well as politics, literature, and the social stigma of living with TB, writes Pet O'Connell. Seán Ó Ríordáin's ...
The Irish Times

Like a Woody Guthrie to the Dylans who came after him: Selected Poems of Seán Ó Ríordáin

Seán Ó Ríordáin (1916-77), the poet, philosopher and sometime columnist with this newspaper, was a major Irish writer, although he is rarely mentioned when major Irish writers are discussed. Written ...
BBC

The best lines from commentating legend Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh

Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh was the voice of Gaelic games, Ireland's national sports. Across a 60-year career, from his 1949 radio debut to his last All-Ireland final on television in 2010, the ...