Wednesday 17th May @ 10.00pm
Cork International Poetry Festival
John Fitzgerald & Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh
John FitzGerald’s collection, The Time Being, was published by Gallery Press in 2021 and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney First Collection Prize. In 2023 he will publish a new translation of The Lament for Art O’Leary, also with Gallery Press. He has produced two letterpress editions of his work with The Salvage Press, Haiku na Feirme (2022) and Darklight (2019). He won the Patrick Kavanagh Prize in 2014 and the Atlantic Currents Prize in 2021. He is Executive Producer of six film documentaries and teaches on the MA in Creative Writing programme at University College Cork. He left his post as University Librarian at UCC in 2022 to write full-time.
File í Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh as Trá Lí i gCo. Chiarraí. Tá trí bhunchnuasaigh foilsithe aici i nGaeilge ó 2008. Ghnóthaigh Tost agus Allagar Duais Uí hAirtnéide in 2019. Bronnadh Duais Lawrence O’Shaughnessy ar The Coast Road in 2020. D’fhoilsigh Éabhlóid cnuasach úr Tonn Teapsaigh agus Dánta Eile anuraidh.
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is a poet from Kerry. She has published three collections in Irish since 2008. Tost agus Allagar won the Michael Hartnett Award in 2019 and a bilingual collection, The Coast Road, was awarded the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Prize in 2020. Éabhlóid published Tonn Teaspaigh agus Dánta Eile last year.
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