Christmas in Kinsale After the fairy lights in seaside lounge and bar the night walk under a blustery Advent sky, sidereal frost systems money will never buy, one gull on a night wave, one polished star, crane light at the quayside, a dark harbour mouth. Wind chimes this morning through dispersing mist from the Church […]
Northern Lights Book Launch: 5 December
7.00pm Wednesday 5 December Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square E, Dublin 1 Book free tickets here The Gallery Press in association with Poetry Ireland presents the launch of Northern Lights: poems in Irish by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill with translations into English by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Peter Fallon, Eamon Grennan, Bernard O’Donoghue and Dennis O’Driscoll. In […]
Of Mouth Lunchtime Series: 7 December
Aifric Mac Aodha will take part in the OF MOUTH lunchtime reading series with Colette Ní Gallchóir at the Linen Hall Library in Belfast on 7 December. https://www.facebook.com/events/2352043634809932/
They tuck you up, your Mum and Dad: 9 October
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
