Ireland’s Favorite Poem

Though traditionally a cultural staple, Irish poetry’s popularity has been on the decline for some time now. The best way to reignite public interest? A contest, of course, and Seamus Heaney just won. His sonnet “When all the others were away at Mass” was voted “Ireland’s best-loved poem written over the past 100 years.”

is a staff writer for The Millions. She lives in New York and every so often writes things at kaulielewis.wordpress.com.