September’s Poem of the Month comes from Ciaran Berry’s forthcoming collection Liner Notes Top of the Pops There was either a message in a bottle | or a brown girl in the ring when I squeezed my way between Sister Áine and Sister Catherine in the convent TV room. Video may well have killed the radio […]
Lantern Folk Club, Navan
Lantern Folk Club Wednesday 19 September The Lantern Lounge, 32 Watergate Street, Navan With special guests Lisa Hannigan, Dough Paisley, Anthony Cregan, Liam Merriman, Bill Stuart, House Bard Peter Fallon and many more to be announced… with Oisin Leech (The Lost Brothers) spinning vinyl on the night.
Missing Voices Seminar: 6 October
Saturday, 6 October 2018 10am-6pm Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square East, Dublin 1 Tickets: Free, register for a place in advance Hosted by Poetry Ireland, the Missing Voices Seminar is an exploration of issues raised in relation to the Irish poetic canon and specifically with the issue of ‘Missing Voices: Irish Women Poets of the […]
New Titles for October 2018
Three new poetry titles due for publication in October 2018 are Liner Notes by Ciaran Berry, This One High Field by Michelle O’Sullivan and From There to Here (Selected Poems and Translations) by Ciaran Carson. Also due for publication is a new version of Double Cross by Thomas Kilroy. Liner Notes: Ciaran Berry’s third collection consider questions of […]
Michael Coady at Clifden Arts Festival – 19 September
Michael Coady and Leanne O’Sullivan Reading 4.30pm Wednesday, September 19 Station House Theatre, Clifden Michael Coady was born in Carrick-on-Suir, where he still lives. A long-standing friend of Clifden Arts Festival and Aosdána member, he has won a number of literary prizes and awards for poetry and prose at home and abroad. Michael’s most recent book […]
Ó Bhéal – Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Borbála Faragó – 17 September
Make a Connection: Borbála Faragó and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin Presented in association with The Heritage Council. Ó Bhéal 9.30pm Monday, 17 September The Long Valley, Winthrop St, Cork For the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH), Ó Bhéal presents a series of paired readings featuring established Irish or European poets with poets who have migrated to Ireland. Eiléan […]
Aifric Mac Aodha at Clifden Arts Festival – 14 September
Aifric Mac Aodha and Louis De Paor Reading at Clifden Arts Festival 3.00pm Friday, September 14 Station House Theatre, Clifden Reading with Aifric Mac Aodha and Louis De Paor with music by Lynn Saoirse. Foreign News (2017) is Aifric Mac Aodha’s first collection with The Gallery Press. She has taught in St Petersburg, New York and […]
Muldoon’s Picnic: 10 September
Hosted by Paul Muldoon With house band Rogue Oliphant The critically-acclaimed feast of music, storytelling, poetry, and more—now in its eighth season—has become a staple of New York’s cultural diet. Led by Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon, this words-and-music jamboree features an evolving lineup of world-class special guests from across the spectrum of arts and letters. 7.30pm […]
Feis Teamhra/A Turn at Tara
Feis Teamhra/A Turn at Tara returns with Sebastian Barry, the newly-appointed Laureate for Irish Fiction, the distinguished poet David Wheatley, and the exhilarating female jazz-folk quartet, Mongoose. 3.00pm Sunday 26 August, 3.00pm Visitors’ Centre, Hill of Tara, Co. Meath Free admission, no booking required The event is organized by Susan McKeown and Paul Muldoon and supported by Poetry Ireland and the […]
Aifric Mac Aodha at Edinburgh Book Festival: 25 August
Shared Identities is a verse dialogue and poetic translation event at Edinburgh International Book Festival. BBC Radio nan Gàidheal presenter, Mark Wringe, hosts a celebration of Scotland and Ireland’s shared cultural and literary identities in this poetry exchange. An Dà Anam, a bardic conversation between Maoilios Caimbeul and Diarmuid Johnson, examines what a person can believe […]
