For Iraqis who lived through the 1990s, dictator Saddam Hussein's birthday on April 28 was a disorientating day of celebration and propaganda.

The February edition of the RTÉ KIDS Book Club, with thanks to Children's Books Ireland, is baby-themed and full of great reading recommendations.

As leadership turnover mounts, the Minnesota Twins' ownership group is finding it harder to explain away years of instability.

Award-winning poet, author, translator and educator X.J. Kennedy has died. He was 96. He schooled millions of students ...

The first time the footage surfaced online, fans felt a jolt of pure nostalgia. That familiar tip-tap, the echo of rhyme, and ...

Rooted in early Christian tradition, Candlemas marks the presentation of Jesus and purification of the Virgin Mary at Herod's Temple in Jerusalem.

Aimee Friedman at Scholastic has bought world rights to The Luckies, a series by Sarah Mlynowski (l.) and Christina ...

William Wordsworth, a pivotal Romantic poet, revolutionized English poetry by championing the "real language of men" and ...

A similar pensive tone is present in his recent collection, A Sharper Silence, wherein he grieves the passing of his wife, Colleen Ahern-Hettich, who died last January from lung cancer. The couple, ...

St Brigid’s Day will take over Bewley’s Grafton Street this weekend with an exciting programme of events to suit children and adults ...

In the preface to her second book of poems, Signing in the Air, Malashri Lal explains her choice of the title for her book by ...

CHICAGO — Do you remember Mother Goose? Are you familiar with the nursery rhyme, “Mary Had a Pretty Bird?” What about “The Cuckoo”? Thanks to singer-songwriter-artist-activist Natalie Merchant, ...