The Irish wake has been the subject of poems, songs, films and stage plays. For all the clichés, the Catholic triduum of death, resting and resurrection is, at the heart, a traditional ritual of ...
Writer and broadcaster, who died at 55 of cancer, was ‘fire-starter’ who will be remembered for ‘spirit of abundance’ ...
Martin Quinn, a native of Bansha, Co Tipperary, has shared this emotional poem with IrishCentral as a tribute to Sinéad O’Connor, the iconic Irish songstress whose family confirmed her death on July ...