Irish Poet, 6th book, EMBLEMAS, (USP, 2024); O Shaughnessy Award Irish Poetry 2014; Varuna, (NSW), Oct '22; W.B.Yeats Thoor Ballylee International Poetry Prize
Dublin City, Ireland
Joined December 2017
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If in Paris: SAMEDI 6 Juin de 18h à 19h15 sur la Scène du Marché, launch by Niall Burgess, ambassadeur d'Irlande en France, readings and music.
Excited to be among sixty poets translated!
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At Flaggy for our annual holiday!
'Useless to think you’ll park and capture it /
More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there,
A hurry through which known and strange things pass...' Postscript, Seamus Heaney
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If in Paris: SAMEDI 6 Juin de 18h à 19h15 sur la Scène du Marché, launch by Niall Burgess, ambassadeur d'Irlande en France, readings and music.
I'm delighted to be included in this anthology!
@poetryireland @MunLitCentre @LimerickWriters @TedSmyth @DanMulhall
🇮🇪 ☘️Poésie "MA VERTE ERIN, visages de la poésie irlandaise" anthologie bilingue @jeannemarie
préface de @NBurgessDFAT @IrishAmbParis
Marché Poésie @MDLPParis place St Sulpice
VEND 5 juin 2:30pm Café de la Mairie
SAM 6 juin 6pm Podium du Marché
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If in Paris: SAMEDI 6 Juin de 18h à 19h15 sur la Scène du Marché, launch by Niall Burgess, ambassadeur d'Irlande en France, readings and music.
I'm delighted to be included in this anthology!
@poetryireland @MunLitCentre @LimerickWriters @TedSmyth @DanMulhall
🇮🇪 ☘️Poésie "MA VERTE ERIN, visages de la poésie irlandaise" anthologie bilingue @jeannemarie
préface de @NBurgessDFAT @IrishAmbParis
Marché Poésie @MDLPParis place St Sulpice
VEND 5 juin 2:30pm Café de la Mairie
SAM 6 juin 6pm Podium du Marché
Stand Manifeste @LMerleMoqueur
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A collective reading of #Ulysses in 80 days, 10-15 pages a day, begins today. There is expert help & readers’ solidarity on ulyssesin80.com. Check it out. Begin the novel today. @JoyceSocietyNY @JoyceFound @bloomsdayfest @JamesJoyceCentr
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April is poetry month in Limerick 2026. Vivienne McKechnie reading Half Moon Magic from her new collection Shades of Red published by Revival Press. Her collection will be launched by Donal Ryan on 24th April 2026 in @PeoplesMuseumLK at 7.30pm all welcome
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 7: A book with singular character -Solo by Gráinne O’Brien
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 10: A book you discovered at a book event - A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello
#readirishwomenchallenge #booksbooksbooks #irishwriters #read
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 16: A book about looking for a place to belong - The Country Girls by Enda O’Brien
#readirishwomenchallenge #readirishwomen #femalewriters #irishwriters #irishauthor
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Read Irish Women Challenge 2026
Day 19: A book your 8 year old self would have loved - Fia And The Last Snow Deer by Eilish Fisher
#readirishwomenchallenge #kateobrien #irishwriters #books #readmore
Congratulations to Lily Michaelides on the translation of her books into English. Lily is reading at the James Joyce Centre next Tuesday April 28th at 6. p.m.
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It was always those with little else to carry
who carried the songs
to Babylon
to the Mississippi-
some of these last possessed less than nothing
did not own their own bodies
yet, three centuries later,
deep rhythms from Africa,
stowed in their hearts & bones,
carry the world’s songs
Moya Cannon
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My thanks to editor Gerry Smyth and The Irish Times for bringing my poem to a wide audience.
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My thanks to editor Gerry Smyth and The Irish Times for bringing my poem to a wide audience.
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Looking forward to being live in @glorennis Sunday, March 8 for the Ennis Book Club Festival. With writers Anne Enright, Hugo Hamilton, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha & more (programme will be broadcast in the coming weeks). More events: ennisbookclubfestival.com
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"I have successfully resisted many temptations in my time...but I could never fight successfully against the corrupting argument of Pancakes!" So wrote Land Leaguer Michael Davitt to artist Sarah Purser in 1888. Carla King tells the story of their friendship, next
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We're open to submissions next Friday (13th February) for gorse 15: Eureka!/EYPHKA! Full details on the website:
gorse.ie/gorse-15-eurekaeyph…
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One week until submissions open.
HOWL New Irish Writing 26 opens on Feb 13th.
Poetry and prose in English and Irish.
We’re looking forward to reading what you’ve been working on.
📅 7 days
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This month, Vona Groarke will deliver her first public lecture as Ireland Professor of Poetry:
‘A Lonely Began: The Poem Alone and the Poem in Company’
📆 Thursday 26 February, 7:30pm
📌 Edmund Burke Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
Book: bit.ly/3M6LJmn
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