A bloom of English rose ... plays with the idea of religious conversion with the poem’s title, but like a funny limerick, she tells the story from the humorous perspective of a boy who ...

Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when ... 1830 to an Italian father and English mother, Rossetti, like ...

In the old Irish calendar the day after St Patrick’s Day is Sheelah’s Day, in commemoration of the woman who many believe to have been Patrick’s wife. According to Shane Lehane, a folklorist at ...

STUDENTS and staff at Coláiste Íde agus Iosef in Abbeyfeale celebrated diversity, world culture, and physical and mental ...

It was mainly composed of the Irish jacobite army which left Ireland after the Treaty of Limerick ... defeated the English and allied armies. The Brigade and their exploits re-commemorated in many ...

Limericks are one of the most famous forms of poetry in the Western world. Short and easily memorized, the five-line rhymes are often absurd and frequently obscene, as evidenced by the many ...

We were looking for poetry that had struck its readers, for whatever reasons, as unforgettable, enduring, and influential: ...

The author and poet Michael Rosen introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The space on the page The 'space' is a ‘friend’ to whom Michael Rosen can tell anything.