Poetry Ireland presents ‘They tuck you up, your Mum and Dad: a series of conversations featuring some of Ireland’s finest writers and poets as they reflect on the often complex parent / child relationship through memoir and poetry. Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill in conversation with Professor of Psychiatry Jim Lucey 7.00pm Tuesday 9 October Poetry Ireland, 11 […]
Missing Voices Seminar: 6 October
Missing Voices Seminar: Irish Women Poets of the 18th-20th Centuries 10.00am-6.00pm Saturday 6 October 2018: Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square East, Dublin 1 Tickets: Free, register for a place in advance Hosted by Poetry Ireland, this seminar is an exploration of issues raised in relation to the Irish poetic canon and specifically with the issue […]
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 […]
Kilkenny Arts Festival: New York Time – 17/18 August
The 45th Kilkenny Arts Festival takes place from 9-19 August this year. Including open-air theatre, a first-time full-staged opera, world premiere productions, exhibitions, an extensive music programme offering a more diverse range of concerts, spoken word events including a number of event on politics, history and culture as well as the premiere of the Arts […]
August Poem of the Month – Derek Mahon
August’s Poem of the Month comes from Derek Mahon’s forthcoming collection Against the Clock Horizons Night wind — a continual, baffled aspirate — wanders the water like a vagrant spirit seeking repose but there is no repose till morning, when the tide withdraws from exposed depths to the south-west with its imaginary Islands of the Blest. […]
John McAuliffe at the Bluedot Festival: 20-22 July
John McAuliffe will be taking part in the Bluedot Festival again this year. Bluedot is an award-winning festival of discovery at the grounds of a deep space observatory. Set against a backdrop of the iconic Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank, Bluedot combines a truly stellar line-up of music with a ground-breaking programme of live science […]
Yeats Summer School Readings
Poetry Reading at Yeats Summer School on 24 July with Peter Fallon, Aifric Mac Aodha, Kelly Sullivan and J T Welsch. 8.00pm Tuesday 24th July Methodist Church, Sligo. Justin Quinn will take part in a lecture and a poet-critic panel at the Yeats Summer School on 24 and 25 July. Full programme here
Dermot Healy Collected Poems Book Launch- 24 July
The Gallery Press in association with Yeats International Summer School hope you will join us to celebrate the publication of Collected Poems by Dermot Healy. Collected Poems is a harvest of almost half a century’s remarkable work — a book rich in imaginative reach and empathy. 5.00pm Tuesday 24 July The Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge, Sligo […]
David Wheatley Poetry Workshop at John Hewitt Summer School – 23-25 July
John Hewitt Summer School Creative Writing Workshop with David Wheatley 2:45pm Monday 23 July – 4.15pm Wednesday 25 July 2018 Time: 90 mins Tickets: £50 for three day writing workshop Book now Develop your writing skills under the direction of one of our eight tutors who are all experienced facilitators and published authors. Each workshop […]
Poets on Tour – Ballina Fringe Festival – 10 July
The Gallery Press: Poets on Tour event in association with Ballina Fringe Festival presents poets Vona Groarke, Tom French and Eamon Grennan will bring their award-winning work to Ballina Fringe Festival on Tuesday 10 July from 7pm. Adm: €10.00 Book tickets
