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'Women of the Atlantic Seaboard'

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Breda Wall Ryan gives the 'everywoman' a backstory.

Reading Poetry Gaeilge Women

Words! Mere Words!

This sound installation – exhibited at MoLI at Halloween in 2021 – combin ...

Reading Gothic Storytelling Horror

Nollaig (Christmas)

Spreading the Words

Thoughts about recent Christmas lights and the long, dark winters of Christ ...

Reading Language History Gaeilge

Teaghlach (Household)

Spreading the Words

In medieval Ireland, the hearth was at the centre of the house, but what ki ...

Reading History Language Gaeilge

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 Irelan ...

Reading Poetry Nature Writing

Luna

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

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

Reading Poetry Women Nature

Daughter

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 sacrifice ...

Reading Poetry Writing Storytelling

Daniel's Duck

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

In Kerry Hardie's poem, an unfortunate duck provides a child's fi ...

Reading Childhood Mortality Nature

Observance

Irish Poetry Reading Archive

Anne Casey examines how relationship with those that have passed can inform ...

Reading Mortality Love Families

On Pollution

Across two prescient articles from her Long Distance columns, Kate O' ...

Reading Biodiversity Environment Writing