The "hunting the wren" tradition has, to a large degree, disappeared, but the tradition of visiting from house to house on St. Stephen's Day has survived in Ireland.

Still celebrated in parts of Ireland and in the diaspora, Wren’s day involves a parade where hunters sing at homes after catching a wren Wren’s day: an old Irish tradition that survives today Home ...

Lá an Dreolín, or Wren Day, in Dingle, and the rain held off for a celebration like no other, alive with colour and music and madcap humour in the darkest month of the year. Once a vibrant rural ...

An acclaimed Irish poet deserts his sick wife and two young daughters. Anne Enright's new novel centers on the way that betrayal reverberates throughout the next generations.

Phil McDaragh is a great Irish poet; he was also a lousy husband and father, abandoning his family to pursue his writing. In Anne Enright's new novel, The Wren, The Wren, three generations of ...

Yet you may feel that you know him anyway, so convincingly has Ms. Enright conjured the archetype of the wandering Irish bard who leaves behind him a legacy of abandoned women and melodious, honey ...

Anne Enright’s novel ‘The Wren, The Wren’ is wondrous. The Irish writer’s latest is a powerful exploration of family bonds in the wake of a father’s abandonment. September 15, 2023.

Inexplicably overlooked by the Booker Prize panel for the longlist, The Wren, The Wren shows that her achievements continue apace: it may be her best book yet. Not only a triumph but a joy. Mia ...

At first glance, it seems impossible to capture generational trauma in a single novel. “The Wren, The Wren” by Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright is a tour-de-force that proves otherwise ...

In “The Wren, the Wren,” which is much more fun than its themes might make it sound, three generations of a contemporary Irish family cope in their own ways with the consequences of that ...

The wren in Irish mythology was said to be “king of the birds” despite its diminutive size; Carmel is a survivor, if a solitary one. Her conceiving of Nell, ...

Ancient Irish tradition of hunting the wren coming to the US this St. Stephen's Day Comhaltas Ceolóirí Éireann will have more than 40 regional branches participating in the ancient tradition ...