Tech Amergin’s Solstice Poetry Gathering Celebrating Contemporary Irish Poetry where Irish Poetry first came ashore www.amerginpoetry.com Ireland’s youngest poetry festival will be celebrating Ireland’s oldest poem, The Song of Amergin, in the company of Ireland Professors of Poetry, Michael Longley, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Harry Clifton, Paula Meehan and Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin as well as poets […]
Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies 18-22 June
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is taking part in the 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies 18-22 June 2018 | University College, Cork, Ireland 7:30pm Tuesday 19 June Poetry Reading Maureen McLane, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Doireann Ní Ghríofa and Leanne O’Sullivan Chair: Adam Hanna, University College Cork 18 June The Irish Language at Home […]
Medbh McGuckian at Belfast Book Festival – 10 June
Belfast Book Festival Four Poets: Ruth Carr, Maureen Boyle, Medbh McGuckian & Maria McManus 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM Sunday 10 June 2018 Price £6 | £4 Join four of Northern Ireland’s leading poets as they read from their latest collections. Ruth Carr’s Feather and Bone is a personal response to two remarkable women: Mary […]
Marina Carr at The Festival of Writing & Ideas – 9 June
The Festival of Writing & Ideas Saturday 9th June 2.00-3.00pm ‘Sacrifice’: Playwright Marina Carr talks to actor Lisa Dwan about rape, mutilation and murder in Greek tragedy. Marking its seventh year The Festival of Writing & Ideas promises a weekend of stimulating dialogue and discourse, gathering together intriguing international minds from all over the world and inviting […]
Listowel Writers’ Week: Michael Hartnett Event – 1 June
Michael Hartnett Poetry Event with Brian Kirk, Caoilinn Hughes & Mark Roper & MC John O’Donnell 4.00pm Friday 1 June Listowel Arms Ballroom, Listowel, Co Kerry Michael Hartnett Event with poets Caoilinn Hughes, Brian Kirk, Mark Roper and Chair of the event John O’Donnell This very popular annual event is held in honour of the […]
Listowel Writers’ Week: Home Thoughts – Gerald Dawe and Eleanor Shanley: 1 June
Listowel Writers Week presents Home Thoughts – Gerald Dawe and Eleanor Shanley 9.30pm Friday 1st June Listowel Arms Ballroom Listowel, Co Kerry What makes a place a home? Is it family? A location that becomes inextricably linked to significant life experiences? Walking streets that become so familiar that you can retrace them in your mind? […]
Friel’s Translations at the National Theatre
Translations by Brian Friel at the National Theatre, London, from 22nd May 2018 ‘This is Brian Friel’s finest and most universal play.’ — Sunday Times What happens when a land is robbed of its language? Owen, the prodigal son, returns to rural Donegal from Dublin. With him are two British army officers. Their ambition is to create […]
Lovers: Winners and Losers at the Pavilion, Dun Laoghaire
The Lyric Theatre Belfast’s production of Brian Friel’s Lovers: Winners and Losers (published by The Gallery Press) will be performed at the Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin from 12-16th June. Brian Friel’s bittersweet meditation on love and loss, told in two parts: Winners and Losers. In Winners we meet Joe and Mag, a young […]
Room to Rhyme: Poetry and Crisis, 1968-1998 – 23 May
Room to Rhyme: Poetry and Crisis, 1968-1998. Linen Hall Library, Belfast, 23rd May 2018. Plenary Address: Edna Longley Evening Reading – 6.00pm: Michael Longley, Alan Gillis and Colette Bryce. The Linen Hall Library, Belfast and the University of Reading invite you to a one-day conference to mark 50 years since the NI Arts Council-funded Room […]
Lovers: Winners and Losers at the Lyric Theatre
Brian Friel’s Lovers: Winners and Losers (published by The Gallery Press) is currently on at the Lyric Theatre, Belfast and runs until 10th June. Brian Friel’s bittersweet meditation on love and loss, told in two parts: Winners and Losers. In Winners we meet Joe and Mag, a young couple with their lives ahead of them, […]
