Acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley managed to touch the souls of people with just a few words, his funeral has heard. President Michael D Higgins was among mourners who joined Longley’s family at ...
Sunlight was emerging through the clouds on St Brigid’s Day, marking the Celtic start of spring, as they came to honour a poet of the natural world. Up to 300 mourners packed into a Belfast church on ...
The funeral of acclaimed Belfast poet Michael Longley has taken place in Belfast. Mr Longley died in hospital at the age of 85 on 22 January. The poet is survived by his wife Edna and children Rebecca ...
He had serious military experience, yet seemed to be almost overlooked that day. I think that this attitude then extends to our church fathers. Some of these were taught by Christ’s Apostles ...
Media vita inmorte sumus (Amid life, we are in death) by Jayantha Perera In the second week of March 202I, I returned from Colombo and Shyamala from New Delhi to Manila. We just learned about the ...
To grow oranges for profit and pleasure, was one of my prewar ambitions. And in the course of learning the business I met, at different times and places, some exceptional persons including Mustapha ...
Is it possible to see into the future Many believe that a man named Michel de Nostradamus could His predictions of the future have mystified scholars for over four hundred years Nostradamus made over ...