Michael D. Higgins and Queen Elizabeth during the Irish president's state visit in Windsor, in April 2014. Credit: AFP. On equality: “There can be no social justice that is not unlimited, no ...

Irish President Michael D. Higgins visited several sites in Boston Saturday, calling the city “the capital of Irish America.’’ The visit, his first to Boston after being elected President ...

Kenny quotes from Higgins' poem - The Minister's Black Car - "Well now ... 1647 Michael D Higgins: "This campaign we can never forget, involved an choice of which Ireland we wanted to be." ...

Newly elected Irish president Michael D. Higgins offered a message of hope and confidence as a precursor to his first Christmas in office. In what are trying times for the Irish public, Higgins ...

Presidential election candidate Michael D Higgins has launched a surprise and very personalized attack on Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness and his IRA past. Responding to a set of questions posed ...

The full text of a new poem by President Michael D Higgins has been released. The politician has published a number of works of poetry prior to his election to office as Irish president in 2011 ...

A poem written President Michael D Higgins sold for €2,500 in the Art for Gaza auction. The sale price for the work, titled The Prophets Are Weeping, was estimated between €1,000 and €1,500.

Irish President Michael D Higgins has published his first poem since becoming head of state in 2011. "The Prophets are Weeping" is thought to have been inspired by the plight of refugees in Syria ...

President Michael D Higgins has warned that the climate crisis is “moving so much faster than the efforts we are expending or enlisting to address it” in a speech at the 74th UN General ...

President Michael D Higgins has released the text of the only poem he has written since assuming office in 2011. ... M.D.H. 2014. Join The Irish Times on WhatsApp and stay up to date.

Irish President Michael D Higgins has published his first poem since becoming head of state in 2011. "The Prophets are Weeping" is thought to have been inspired by the plight of refugees in Syria ...