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Dermot Bolger

Writer Presents

The poet, playwright and novelist looks at the life and enduring legacy of architect Herbert Simms.

Podcast Poetry Architecture Working Class

At Bridget's Well

Three Poems for Brigid

Poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa Performance by Osaro Azams Music by Syn To celebrate St ...

Video Poetry Music Women

Old Biddy Talk

Three Poems for Brigid

Paula Meehan's poem performed by Ruth McCabe.

Video Poetry Music Love

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Three Poems for Brigid

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe's poem performed by Caitríona Ennis.

Video Poetry Music Renewal

Dúlra (The Elements, Nature)

Spreading the Words

Hear how the natural word is perceived by Irish writers in the past and present.

Podcast Nature Poetry Gaeilge

Immram (Voyage)

Spreading the Words

The theme of immram, or voyage, is central to a number of poems by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill.

Podcast Travel Gaeilge Poetry

What Is The Word Discussion

This discussion explores the inspiration, dramaturgy, and design of the exhibition as they relate to the different literary phases of Samuel Beckett’s life and career.

Interview Poetry Writing Biography

Hold Open the Door: Annemarie Ní Churreáin & Rory Duffy

This episode features Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Rory Duffy in conversation about topics such as the value of creative writing groups and rediscovering a creative path.

Podcast Poetry Education Writing

Hold Open the Door: Bebe Ashley, Emma Must and Sinéad Morrissey

Hold Open the Door

This episode features poets Bebe Ashley, Emma Must and Sinéad Morrissey in conversation about the influence they have had on one another, Belfast as a key theme in their work, and the importance of getting feedback.

Podcast Poetry Northern Ireland Writing

'Women of the Atlantic Seaboard'

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Breda Wall Ryan gives the 'everywoman' a backstory.

Reading Poetry Gaeilge Women

Na hAgallaimh Imram: Colin Ryan

IMRAM

Scríbhneoir ar leith é Colin Ryan atá lonnaithe in Melbourne agus an Ghaeilge roghnaithe aige mar mheán liteartha.

Interview Gaeilge Colonialism Poetry

Hold Open the Door: Nithy Kasa & Jean O'Brien

Hold Open the Door

On learning not to be strong, teaching creative writing, writing in English as a fourth language, and finding trusted readers.

Interview Poetry International Writing

Dinnsheanchas (A Literature of Place)

Spreading the Words

Real space without and imaginative space within: how the poetry of Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, rooted in the landscape, echoes the interests of medieval Ireland.

Podcast Poetry Gaeilge History

'Close to Magic'

NovelTeens

Sarah Maria Griffin on portals, bad advice and how writing can free us.

Podcast Writing Education Poetry

A Poetic Licence Earned

City of Books

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin about a time when books were banned as well as how her mother, children's writer Eilís Dillon, had a cupboard of them.

Podcast Poetry Writing Families

The Diplomatic Arts

City of Books

Ambassador Daniel Mulhall talks to Martina Devlin about how literature can act as a cultural bridge.

Podcast Poetry Politics International

A Wet Summer's Evening

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Joseph Woods evokes an all too familiar image, that of a rainy Irish summer.

Reading Poetry Nature Reading

The Light Fantastic

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Kate Dempsey takes whimsical look at an everyday occurrence in rural Ireland.

Reading Poetry Nature Writing

The Inner Poet

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Mark Roper talks about the voice that everyone has that instills doubt in the worst possible moments.

Poetry Poetry Writing Mental Health

Luna

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe explores the associations between the female body and the moon.

Reading Poetry Women Nature

Daughter

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Mary O'Donnell looks at a mother's anticipation of her daughter's arrival.

Reading Women Families Poetry

Dublin You Are

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Stephen James Smith looks at how Dublin is a city made up of many different elements.

Reading Poetry Dublin Social Justice

The Lost Boys

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Mary O'Malley's poem looks at how homelessness is an ever-present problem on the streets of Dublin.

Reading Poetry Working Class Poverty

The Darwin Vampires

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Patrick Chapman's alternative take on the classic vampire legend.

Reading Poetry Supernatural Playful

'The Singer'

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Medbh McGuckian looks at how being a poet requires making certain sacrifices.

Reading Poetry Writing Storytelling

Haunted by the Ghost

City of Books

In her first podcast interview since being named winner of the An Post Irish Book of the Year award for 2020, Doireann Ní Ghríofa talks to Martina Devlin.

Podcast Women History Poetry

Espero

Words Lightly Spoken

Poet Erin Fornoff reflects on the plight of undocumented citizens.

Poetry Poetry Migration Language

The Gravity Wave

Words Lightly Spoken

Peter Sirr on how the violent collisions of black holes in space translate into a love poem.

Podcast Non-Fiction Poetry Love

Filleadh ón Antartach

Words Lightly Spoken

Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh's poem tells a story of a man who travels to Antarctica only to fall in love with the sound of the ice and its landscape.

Podcast Gaeilge Poetry Nature

Back Up Quick They're Hippies

Words Lightly Spoken

Lani O'Hanlon recalls a hairy situation as her parents mistakenly pull into a hippy commune while on holiday in the South-West of England.

Poetry Poetry Playful Travel

Still

Words Lightly Spoken

Ailbhe Darcy ruminates on motherhood, childrearing and a smothering plant beloved by some but hated by others.

Poetry Women Poetry Families

To the Management

Words Lightly Spoken

Inspired by the 2,000-year-old Roman poet, Horace, John McAuliffe has found beauty in the mundanity of University administration.

Poetry Poetry Playful History

Dorothy's Country

Words Lightly Spoken

Ruth Carr channels the meditations of Dorothy Wordsworth (William Wordsworth's only sister) as she roams the 19th Century English countryside.

Poetry History Poetry Women

While Bleeding

Words Lightly Spoken

What can an old coat tell us about womanhood? Doireann Ní Ghríofa reads her poem, speaking to the connection of women across time.

Poetry Women Poetry History

The Painter on His Bike

Words Lightly Spoken

How did one throw-away comment spark inspiration for Enda Wyley?

Poetry Writing Families Poetry

A Sonnet for Michael Viney

Words Lightly Spoken

Words Lightly Spoken, a podcast about poetry from Ireland, is a Rockfinch production, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.

Poetry Nature Friendship Poetry

Our Lady of Cúm a' Chiste

Words Lightly Spoken

Inspired by his two-year-old grandson, Paddy Bushe recalls a bygone Ireland, full of prayer flags, ritual and Marian Year statues.

Poetry Religion Tradition Poetry

The Lyric Flow of Street

UCDScholarcast

In this lecture, poet Micheal O'Siadhail, looks at how the poems in If Ever You Go express the varying emotions generated by the experience of Dublin.

Lecture Dublin Poetry

Women Poets in the City

Dr Lucy Collins explores some poems by women published in the last one hundred years, from lesser-known figures such as Winifred Letts to contemporaries Eavan Boland and Paula Meehan.

Lecture Women Poetry Dublin

Exploring the Sea in the Work of Eavan Boland and W.B. Yeats

Jody Allen Randolph explores the 'landless inheritance' of two of our greatest poets, and how the sea shaped their imaginative lives.

Lecture The Sea Poetry Writing

Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in them

Poet Paula Meehan delivered this lecture as Ireland's Professor of Poetry in 2014.

Lecture Poetry Memory Childhood

Old and Tough / As love

Moya Cannon reads her poem 'Pollen' in which she describes the powdery grain as 'old and tough / as love'.

Poetry Poetry Nature Storytelling

Let No Love Poem Ever come to this Threshold

Eavan Boland's poem 'Quarantine' addresses the horrors of the Irish famine of the 1840s through the tragic story of a husband and wife, and their final hours.

Poetry Poetry Famine Grief

Hold Open the Door: Paula Meehan

Hold Open the Door

In conversation with Kelly O'Brien and Margaret Kelleher, poet Paula Meehan reads a new poem and covers topics such as the value of creative workshops, cycles of poverty in north inner-city Dublin, and poetry as a means of protest.

Interview Poetry Dublin Social Justice