Calling all Literary Producers! Bring your insights, bring your questions, for this facilitated group discussion amongst professionals creating literary events, happening next month at #DBF23 🎟️➡️ bit.ly/49mVxzx

Useless to think you’ll park and capture it More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there, A hurry through which known and strange things pass As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways And catch the heart off guard and blow it open. Seamus Heaney ‘Postscript’

Agnes O'Farrelly, aka Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh, pioneering feminist & Irish language activist, founding president of Cumann na mBan, 1st Irish language woman novelist, poet, camogie expert, Professor of Irish University College Dublin, born on this day 150 years ago. See Ríona Nic Congáil's work.

Michael Longley's Life of Poetry Ep1 starts tonight 8 Jul 9:45pm @bbcradio3 & BBC Sounds in conversation with #OliviaOLeary. Poetry Ireland IrelandChairOfPoetry Aosdána The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon Arts Council of Northern Ireland Maureen Kennelly Liz Kelly Petroc Trelawny Ian McMillan bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Delighted to have a poem included in Poetry in the Park 2024. My thanks to curator Bernadette Gallagher and Cork City Librarian Patricia Looney. Poetry Ireland Munster Literature Centre L. W. C. Limerick : Culture : Arts Siobhan Campbell Ted Smyth Daniel Mulhall echolive.ie/wow/arid-41427…

A new study led by Sonia Bishop, Psychology TCD, published in Nature Communications today advances our understanding of how the brain responds to emotionally charged objects and scenes. Read more here: tcd.ie/news_events/ar…

@MoliMuseum Glucksman Ireland House NYU UCD Library West Cork Literary Festival Irish Writers Centre Lucy Collins Claire Cunningham

We're so thankful for our continued partnership with NationalPrintMuseum & Mary Plunkett, who kindly facilitated our print workshop yesterday as part of Yeats Sisters weekend, marking centenary of Cuala's publication of 'The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems'. Images: Emma Rothwell 🙏

In an interview, Heaney said he and his wife had disagreed on getting a skylight for his writing space in the attic. "I came back from Harvard one time and went upstairs...there was a skylight! Actually, it was a tremendous change for me... I lifted up my eyes to the heavens!"

'Fields multiplied, and into view through veils/ of rain wandered first Lough Derg,/ then a winding gleam, The Shannon/' --- 🌟 ‘Slieve Feilim' by Catherine Phil MacCarthy Catherine Phil MacCarthy , Channel Issue 10 🌟 channelmag.org/current-issue/

'Rain plashed the half-door; its siding A curt veneer when water slipped Inside its walls; embarrassed to see us, as we it.' Poetry from issue 4 (spring/summer 2017) by Michael Dooley Michael Dooley 🏚️ bansheepress.org/read/rented-co…

If you missed it live (or want to relisten!) Reflections on Lough Derg w/ poet Eleanor Hooker is available to listen back online. RTÉ Radio 1 Poetry Ireland Dedalus Press The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon UCD Poetry MoLI – Museum of Literature Ireland writing.ie Culture on RTÉ @rnli #irishpoetry rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

"His voice is easy, melodic, seeming sometimes casual, sometimes deceptively smooth but always alert" Experience Zimbabwe through the eyes of Joseph Woods in Veld Fires. A poetry collection as an homage to his time spent there. Dedalus Press #ReadWithAC dedaluspress.com/product/veld-f…

Cold rivers rise, restless, as though to say — you have come this far but not yet arrived, you have survived oceans of salt, try again, break surface here, fresh water awaits you, the ground is prepared. Do it. Eleanor Hooker

Although Seamus sadly left us 11 years ago we will forever be enriched by the poetry and writings of this magnificent, kind, courageous, and visionary genius. ⁦Seamus Heaney Home⁩ ⁦Catherine Phil MacCarthy⁩

Excited to hear Earth SONNET song cycle first time Dublin Fringe Festival Fri 13 & Sat 14. Composed & directed mel mercier & based on & new sonnets by Irish poets including my tribute to the humble but wonderful dandelion. Bígí linn...

🍥Comhghairdeachas | Congratulations to the 2024 Poetry Ireland Awardees 🌐📚 On Saturday we gather to talk together about finding flow, being with our poetry dreams, and doing what poet Alice Notley describes so beautifully as ‘remaking the world from the inside out’. #filí

Just out of a gorgeous launch of Whales & Whales by Luisa Castro, translated from the Galician by Keith Payne. This is such a special book & huge thanks to the ever innovative Skein Press for bringing it to Irish readers. Books Upstairs

As Joe Lee’s first post-graduate student History at UCC in the 1970s, I was delighted to be asked to contribute to this volume in his honour which will be published next month.