Evlana Ensemble & @newmusicdublin present “A Memory”💫with special guest Paula Meehan💫 6 April 5.30pm @nationalconcerthall Music by Siobhán Cleary Gemma Peacocke, Judith Ring, Keiko Abe, Deborah Cheetham, Joan Tower & a world premiere by Stephen Gardner newmusicdublin.ie

Bittersweet memories and a mighty mouse, revolutionary whispers and a tribute to a Dublin city hero… #sundaymiscellany is coming up with John Toal Catherine Foley Justin MacCarthy Dr. Rosaleen McDonagh Kathleen Murphy Paula Meehan Durgham Mushtaha Tune in!📻Sun 23 Mar 9.10am RTÉ Radio 1

Giant moon rising above #Errigal #Donegal last night. A shot I've been looking forward to for quite some time.  Plenty little people up there enjoying both moonrise and sunset.  Thank you little people.  You made my day

Denis Devlin (1908-1959) was an Irish diplomat and a fine poet. This poem, ‘Royal Canal’ is taken from a 1950 issue of Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann dedicated exclusively to Devlin’s poems.

ANNA AKHMATOVA Poems trans Kunitz and Hayward ⁦Mariner Books⁩ Formed in Pre-revolutionary Russia, AA remains a source of lyric wisdom. Here the self, still in the gaze of a strange environment, awakens to an identity deeper than the personal self. The final image resonates.

At home again on Ikaria, /our own bee-loud glade. How this morning/hawks were hung in the still mountain air– Paula Meehan, ‘The Island’ Both Paula Meehan and Theo Dorgan, two of Ireland’s best-known contemporary poets, have had a lifelong passion for Greek myth and literature!

"As old houses harbour ghosts, so do words. Take museum which comes down from the Greek, a place to put things that please the Muses, a shrine or seat of the old goddesses." #TodaysPoem #poetry Museum by Paula Meehan (2018 @PoetryIreland) tinyurl.com/2bsw2p79

👏👏👏 Winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: “New and Selected Poems,” by Marie Howe The committee highlighted a collection “drawn from decades of work that mines the quotidian modern experience for evidence of our shared loneliness, mortality and holiness.”

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Happy Birthday Christy Moore and gratitude for all you've given Love to you & Val ❤️ Christy Moore - Viva la Quinta Brigada | Live on The Late Late Show youtu.be/a-ZpFnXJQ88?fe… via YouTube

‘Mum pouring water into blue tea-pot’ 1974, Doreen Fletcher, pencil

Poetry Ireland would like to thank Maureen Kennelly for her vision, imagination, passion and boundless energy in her work as Director of The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. She brought her unique gifts and talents to every encounter and travelled all over Ireland supporting artists & arts workers.

irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arts… Irish Examiner Arts & Culture For upcoming event on 30th of June in Bantry .

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Applications are now open for the Poetry Ireland Introductions / Céadlínte programme 2025. Deadline is midnight on July 22nd. Submit applications via the 'Submittable' link in our bio.

Incredible story about the role of Beat poet Gary Snyder in one of the most consequential leaks in US history. It's legit. Via Randy Roark.