Six poets will take centre stage in Bansha later this August when the final of the Darby Ryan International Poetry Contest takes place at the historic Templeneiry Old Church in the Tipperary village.

Quote of the day by Robert Frost, “The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected,” reflects on time, personal growth and changing perspectives. The quote compares morning and afternoon with ...

In the middle of the 1930s, a young English schoolmaster, Wystan Hugh Auden, began writing a torrent of tremendous poems.

Wang Jibing, a writer and delivery driver, has won one of China's most prestigious award for poetry. Professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow of Duke University explains why his work has had such huge impact.

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A Junior Cycle pupil in Co Galway got quite the surprise this week when a poem written by his mother, and inspired by him, came up in the English paper during this year’s State exams. Envoi in Chalk, ...

Researchers Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner traveled to view "Caedmon's Hymn" Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App team in 2025. Her ...

A group of Irish researchers got the shock of a lifetime when they discovered the oldest surviving English poem. “Caedmon's Hymn” was first composed in the 7th century by a Northumbrian agricultural ...

Researchers discovered the copy of the 1,300-year-old poem lurking inside a historical text in an Italian library There’s no record of Caedmon jotting the poem down himself—but records of it can be ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Scholars at Trinity College Dublin have identified the oldest surviving English poem, “Caedmon’s Hymn,” hidden in ...

From left, Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner from Dublin’s Trinity College and Valentina Longo of Rome’s National Central Library look at a manuscript containing a rare, long-lost copy of ...

Turns out, love, tragedy, and literature existed even before Shakespeare!Hidden away in a quiet Roman library sat a book almost everyone thought lost. It crossed borders, survived all kinds of ...