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Category Archives: Poetry
Letters With Wings project for Poetry Day Ireland (30th April, 2020)
With people all over the world confined to home because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a cosmopolitan group of poets based in Northern Ireland have set up Letters With Wings, “to bond with artists and activists who are kept in prisons … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom to Write, Poetry
Tagged Broken Glory, Constance Markievicz, Csilla Toldy (Hungary), Daphne Caruana Galizia, Eva Gore Booth, Freedom to Write Campaign, Letters With Wings, Maria McManus (Northern Ireland), Nandi Jola (South Africa), Narges Mohammadi, Poetry Day Ireland, Viviana Fiorentino (Italy)
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POETRY MEMORIAL FOR DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA – Call for poems
It’s hard to believe that almost two years have passed since the Maltese anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered, but 16th October will mark the second anniversary of her death. A fierce critic of the political establishment in Malta, … Continue reading
Eavan Boland’s Dublin – visit the exhibition online
This week sees the official launch of a new website: A Poet’s Dublin – Eavan Boland (https://apoetsdublin.wordpress.com/). The website has been designed to complement and extend two earlier initiatives that celebrate the poet’s seventieth birthday: a book Eavan Boland – A Poet’s Dublin, edited … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Carcanet, Colin Graham, Eavan Boland, Illuminations, Jody Allen-Randolph, Moynagh Sullivan, NUI Maynooth, Paula Meehan
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Hidden Irelands (an interview with Celia de Fréine in the Dublin Review of Books)
This is the text of a recent essay based on an interview with the poet and playwright Celia de Fréine, published by the Dublin Review of Books at http://www.drb.ie/essays/hidden-irelands HIDDEN IRELANDS (by Lia Mills) Blood Debts, by Celia de Fréine, Scotus … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Writing Ireland
Tagged A lesson in Can't, Aisteoirí Bulfin, An Triail, Údarás na Gaeltachta, Blood Debts, Blood Scandals (Ireland), Brecht, Brian Merriman, Celia de Fréine, Conall Morrisson, Dublin Review of Books, Eavan Boland, Equal Status Act, Fiacha Fola, Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnachta, Hepatitis C, Jonathan Wade, Lia Mills, Luz Mar Gonzalez Arias, Mairéad Ní Ghráda, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mark McKee, Máire Mhac an Tsaoi, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Pinter, Scarecrows at Newtownards, Scotus Press, Shakespeare, The Midnight Court, Umbrella Theatre Company, UNHRC
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Nessa O’Mahony on Historical Material & Irish Writing (An Interview)
LM: Can you describe your experience of working with historical material? NOM: I first began exploring history through the lens of family history. I’d studied history at university – my degree was English and History – and absolutely loved … Continue reading
Posted in Historical Fiction, Poetry
Tagged Arnold Toynbee, Civil War, Colette O'Flaherty, Creative Writing PhD (Bangor), Donal McCartney, Family history, First World War, Free State Army, Her Father's Daughter, Historical Material, In Sight of Home, Irish history, Margaret Butler, Michael Laffan, National Library, Nessa O'Mahony, Ronan Fanning, Royal Munster Fusiliers, Salmon Poetry, Trapping a Ghost, War of Independence
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Two poetry competitions from The Moth
This just came in from Claire Mulligan @ The Moth Magazine (http://www.themothmagazine.com/) Details of this year’s Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize: * One overall prize of €10,000 for a single poem * Three runner-up prizes of €1,000. The prize is open … Continue reading
Flash Fiction or Prose Poem?
This is what’s exercising my sluggish, rain-soaked brain at the minute: what is the difference between flash fiction and a prose poem? Narrative, you might suggest – as Nessa O’Mahony did, very helpfully, when I posted the question on Twitter … Continue reading
Eavan Boland: A Poet’s Dublin (Launch)
On Bloomsday weekend in Dublin a lot of shop-window mannequins – and some people – sported straw hats; some were even in costume, despite the sunshine. The Rosie Hackett bridge is still a novelty. Tourists are oblivious to the fact that … Continue reading
Paula Meehan Lecture: “Imaginary bonnets with real bees in them”
(Annual lecture of the Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paula Meehan: 26th February 2014) The luck of this, to have been in Theatre M (UCD) on a rainy Wednesday night to hear Paula Meehan speak, one of an intimate crowd of … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged Doris Lessing, Frank McGuinness, Ireland Chair of Poetry, Marianne Moore, Paula Meehan, UCD
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Eavan Boland
It’s a real shock to learn that Eavan Boland has died. Hers was the kind of presence that seemed outside of time, even though definitely not Outside History. She has had a profound effect on so many of us in … Continue reading →