As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2025, twelve poems have been selected following a national call out to respond to this year's theme, May Day - read May Day by Gabriel Rosenstock below.

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E. Housman’s poem at her lover’s funeral, and utters the line, “Smart lad to slip betimes away, from fields where glory does not stay.” Or Kristin Scott Thomas’s Katharine Clifton in ...

‘The Briton... should cheerfully acquiesce in the decree of Destiny, and stand in betimes with the conquering American.” So said William Thomas Stead, the prominent Victorian newspaperman and strident ...

Here was a home, now in tatters, that once reverberated with the sounds of happy children, perhaps a busy Mum cooking rabbit stew, and a father probably away in Scotland betimes in order to ...

Irish Food History: A Companion (Royal Irish Academy) is probably not pitched at the TikTok cohort of food lovers for it is a comprehensive and betimes academic navigation — most if not all ...

That was the first of his six titles to appear from the Dublin-based Betimes Books, which was founded by the agent turned publisher Svetlana Pironko. Its ethos is resolutely independent and not ...

Finally, a reason to check your email. The lines are from A. E. Housman’s poem “To an Athlete Dying Young.” Joe Biden is not an athlete dying young. He is a president, leaving old, at a shockingly ...

People found themselves captivated by new dreams, hope and opportunity. Engineers like David Huddie are betimes the forgotten heroes of the last century. Perhaps we ought to take a leaf from the ...