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The Irish For: Where old ghosts meet - the story behind On Raglan Road
Darach Ó Séaghdha
'Crouched Burial': An award-winning poem before bedtime
Hundreds of Irish people came together to write this beautiful poem about our little country
History-maker Gianluigi Buffon wrote a fantastic open letter to the goal he protects
'Happy moments we've shared have almost melted like snow' - brother's touching tribute to missing sister
Apache Pizza delivered the cutest poem on a pizza box at the weekend
Everyone is sharing this poem with an uplifting hidden meaning
This kid handed in the most ingenious homework we have ever seen
People have been writing beautiful things about falling in love on the Northside
The President announced Ireland's favourite poem of the past 100 years, can you guess?
Ireland's 'poet of the people' honoured for a lifetime's great work
Watch one Leitrim poet's passionate portrayal of modern Ireland
Irish author Colum McCann’s moving ode to Robbie Keane
A poem for Willie Bermingham: a man with 'a dream for the lame and old'
Vincent Caprani
VIDEOS: Seamus Heaney on life, love and poetry
'The patron saint of the clenched fist' - Poet pays tribute to Roy Keane
Chinese dissident poet charged with subversion