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All the poets in the series are anthologized in a recent book, Irish Women Poets Rediscovered: Readings in poetry from the eighteenth to the twentieth century (Cork University Press), a new ground ...
In the Poetry Programme on 10th April 2022, at 7 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, presenter Olivia O'Leary is joined by Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie, editors of Irish Women Poets Rediscovered, published by ...
Irish Women Poets was part of a response to that othering of women poets but it fed into other meetings, voices and attempts to work out, ...
Irish Women Poets and the Canon has so far been 100 per cent positive, with signatories of both genders already signing the pledge, among them the executive director of the Academy of American ...
Eavan Boland, who expanded the voice of Irish poetry by consciously writing from a female point of view, putting the lives and experiences of women at the center of her poems, died April 27 at her ...
Herstory is celebrating how Brigid continues to inspire modern Irish women today ahead of St. Brigid's Day 2023.
April is National Poetry Month! To celebrate, here’s a set of graphics that showcase some of our favorite verses of poetry by strong women poets from around the world. Please add to our list by ...
Irish poetry during a time of COVID Zoom - “Remembering Mannin Bay” "I could also envisage the garden of white lace formed by Mannin Bay’s coral, a reminder that the ocean is and always will ...
Irish poet Joan McBreen will give a reading at the University of Alabama at Birmingham on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013, as part of the BACHE Visiting Writers Series. The event, hosted by the Department of ...
The contemporary Irish poet Eavan Boland has taken up Rich’s task. Writing her way out from under the patriarchal inheritance of Irish literary traditions, Boland radically stripped her language ...
Jonathan deBurca Butler meets the author of a book on Irish women who have inspired poetry and song. Mon, 03 Oct, 2016 - 01:00 ...
Recently there’s been much talk of a resurgence in Irish literature, particularly writing by women. This supposed trend encompasses all genres from literary fiction to crime, YA, poetry and non ...