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General News: Baby Steps

Four of Ireland’s most celebrated writers with some of the earliest poems they ever wrote. Can you guess who wrote what? read more

General News: ​Shortlist hat-trick for Poetry Ireland at the Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards

All Through the Night, edited by Maire Heaney, is shortlisted in two categories, and a poem first published in Poetry Ireland Review: The Rising Generation is shortlisted for the Listowel Writers’ Week Poem of the Year in this year’s Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards. read more

Writers > Feature Articles: Poetry Ireland Introductions

…after Eavan Boland and Paula Meehan had worked their magic in the late-lamented Bol Arts Centre, the poem-loving public was not yet sated, and the Damer Hall was surprisingly full. Which goes to prove that there is an audience for poetry right across the board, from Boland/Meehan all the way… read more

General News: IRELAND 100 literature series: Celebrating a Century of Irish Arts & Culture.

Washington’s Kennedy Center presents a five-day Irish literature series. read more

General News: Wicklow Literature Programme Launch

Mermaid Arts Centre, Thursday 25 Feb 2016, 6pm read more

General News: President Michael D. Higgins announces new Ireland Professor of Poetry

Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin had been awarded the prestigious position of the Ireland Professor of Poetry 2016. read more

General News: Katie Donovan to receive prestigious US award for her poetry

Irish poet Katie Donovan has been named as the recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry 2017. She has been invited to America to receive the award and to give a reading in April. Closer to home, Katie Donovan will also be appearing at Cork International Poetry Festival on… read more

Writers > Feature Articles: Joan and Kate Newmann’s Summer Palace Press

…Longley, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Paula Meehan, Macdara Woods, Theo Dorgan, Frank Ormsby, Leland Bardwell and Kerry Hardie. The atmosphere on these occasions is always positive and encouraging; the work dealt with in a reflective, incisive and insightful manner, sometimes interrupted by peals of laughter. The room, filled to capacity, somehow… read more

General News: Stoney Road Press, Poetry Ireland and An Post announce “16”

Stoney Road Press, Poetry Ireland and An Post announce the publication of “16”, a limited-edition, fine-press collection of poetry and art in celebration of the centenary of the 1916 Rising. read more

Writers > Feature Articles: Paradise Lost?

…for example, along with Paula Meehan, Michael Longley, and Cathal Ó Searcaigh, four of the poets who read at the Centre earlier this year. The programme of readings, chosen and compiled by John McNamee, never ceased to amaze me, it always managed to represent not only the major and established… read more