Here is a complete list of nominations for Sunday’s 67th annual Grammy Awards: Grammys 2025 Album of the Year “Cowboy Carter,” Beyoncé “New Blue Sun,” André 3000 “Short n’ Sweet,” Sabrina Carpenter ...

Studying English literature at the University of Oxford as an Irish undergraduate was an education in being an outsider. I ...

Books newsletter: a preview of Saturday’s pages; Dylan Thomas Prize; Classics Now; The Last Boy; Mick Herron award; Susan ...

A barbecue, a protest ... or a good book? We asked some of our leading historians to choose an essential Australia Day read. Here are the works they ...

O’Brien had earlier run away with her older lover, Ernest Gebler, which led to a farcical and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to bring her home from her hiding place on the Isle ...

The great English poet, John Milton, explained why this is inevitable 350 years ago in Paradise Lost, writing that the fierce hatred inspired by war makes hope of compromise unrealistic ...

Thomas Merton expressed this vision in his poetry, novels, essays ... Her salutation Sings in the stone valley like a Charterhouse bell: And the unborn saint John Wakes in his mother's body, Bounds ...

Tiverton Civic Society unveiled a blue plaque at 1 St Andrew's Street in recognition for the late Dr John Clare Byrt. A towering figure in the world of music, Dr Byrt left an indelible mark as a ...

It was published in 1820 in his second and last volume of poems ... dying John Keats was en route to Italy when a storm forced the ship he was on to take shelter in Portsmouth Harbour, giving him the ...

Kilcarragh and Doon, Kilfenora and formerly of Crusheen , Co. Clare. Peacefully at Ennis General Hospital on 12 January, 2025. Predeceased by his Parents Michael and Molly, sisters Betty and Noreen, ...

In the words of the English poet, John Donne: “Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;… One short sleep past, we wake eternally And death shall be ...