On June 16 2011, UCD honoured five holders of the Ireland Chair of Poetry: John Montague, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Paul Durcan, Michael Longley and Harry Clifton and also awarded the university's highest honour, the UCD Ulysses Medal, to Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney... Pulitzer prize-winning American cartoonist and creator of Doonsbury, Garry Trudeau was also conferred with an honorary degree. UCD is proud to celebrate Bloomsday, remembering the university's most famous alumnus, James Joyce.
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Séamus Fox winning the All Ireland poetry slam in The Crane Bar, Galway City 26th October 2009. Thanks to Sophie Rasmussen and Joby Fox of King Street Arts, Dave Hyndman of NVTV and Scott (Skeeter) Calonico.
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Séamus Fox winning the All Ireland poetry slam in The Crane Bar, Galway City 26th October 2009. Thanks to Sophie Rasmussen and Joby Fox of King Street Arts, Dave Hyndman of NVTV and Scott (Skeeter) Calonico.
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I was asked to be part of the BBC Radio 4 All Ireland Poetry Slam Final in 2007 representing Leinster, this poem is called 'Prozac Positivity' I wrote it after a hard time in my life but I went to see 'The Importance of being Earnest' at The Abbey Theatre and laughed so hard it help to change me. www.StephenJamesSmith.com Other poets on the night where Chloe Poems / Gerry Potter (MCing) Mark Madden (Organizer) Mags Treanor Brendan Murphy Chris Collins Gerard McKeown PC Paul Casey
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These are Three Poems wrote by Padraig Pearse. Padraig Pearse was a Teacher, School Master, and Irish Patriot. Pearse Believed strongly that he would need to sacrifice himself to re-light the Irish Spirit of freedom. He loved and was passionate about Irish Culture too. He was a leading figure of the Easter Rising and was command of the GPO. After the rising he and 14 others where executed by firing Squad in Kilmainham jail, with another leader being hung in an English prison after being refused a soldiers death (Roger casement). And another leader being killed in another prison dureing those weeks also. Pearse was also (like some other of the leaders) a very talented Poet. Poetry is a key feature in Irish History for with poetry old irish history was passed on, and even far back as the ancient irish warriors the Fianna, they had to be good poets and bards as also good warriors. One side note, In the Poem ''The mother'' (poem two in the video) Pearse says ''My two strong sons'', it is strange to note that pearse AND his brother willie were executed (hence ''2'' sons). The Three Poems in the video are: 1) The Rebel 2) The Mother 3) To my mother All wrote by Padraig Pearse.
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I was chosen to represent Leinster in the 2007 BBC Radio 4 All Ireland Poetry Slam Final held @ McHuges in Belfast this poem is called Ticking Clock. www.StephenJamesSmith.com Other poets on the night where Chloe Poems / Gerry Potter (MCing) Mark Madden (Organizer) Mags Treanor Brendan Murphy Chris Collins Gerard McKeown PC Paul Casey Other poets on the night were: Chloe Poems (MCing) Mark Madden (Organizer) Mags Treanor Brendan Murphy Chris Collins Noel Sweeney Gerard McKeown
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From the All-Ireland Poetry Slam Championship, held at McHugh's in Belfast on May 11th 2007.
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This is a short video on the Irish Poet Thomas Moore that I put together as part of my 15 minute flash presentation for my MFA residency in Ireland.
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Born in Northern Ireland, poet Paul Muldoon is a major literary voice on both sides of the Atlantic, having won the America's Pulitzer Prize, Canada's Griffin Prize, and Britain's TS Eliot Prize. Muldoon, who has lived in the US since 1987, is Howard GB Clark '21 Professor in the Humanities at Princeton University. Muldoon, the author of Moy Sand and Gravel (2003 Pulitzer Prize) and many other books, describes his process of composition and notes the way a poetic line stands on the border between sense and nonsense. He reads and discusses his poem, "The Loaf," and remarks on the political content of his poetry. Muldoon also reads some lines in Irish by the poet Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and reads his English translation of her work.
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Aidan Quinn invites you to Imagine Ireland
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A slightly sentimental but yet quite accurate portrayal of Ireland's travelling pipers of the first half of the 19th. These verses are from a longer poem by John Keegan from Co. Laois ( died 1849) and the reading here is by Benedict Kiely. The reel is "The Wind That Shakes The Barley" played by Liam O Flynn. Another scratchy post from the LP "Mo Cheol Thú". One winter's day, long, long ago, When I was a little fellow, A piper wandered to our door, Grey-headed, blind and yellow; And, how glad was my young heart Though earth and sky looked dreary, To see the stranger and his dog - Poor Pinch and Caoch O'Leary. O God be with those happy times O God be with my childhood. When I bareheaded roamed all day Bird nesting in the wildwood I'll not forget those sunny hours However years may vary. I'll not forget my early friends Nor honest Caoch O'Leary. Poor Caoch and Pinch slept well that night, And in the morning early He called me up to hear him play "The wind that shakes the barley:" And then he stroked my flaxen hair And cried, "God mark my deary" And how I wept when he said "Farewell, And think of Caoch O'Leary." Well twenty summers had gone past, And June's red sun was sinking, When I, a man, sat by my door, Of twenty sad things thinking. A little dog came up the way, His gait was slow and weary, And at his tail a lame man limped - 'Twas Pinch and Caoch O'Leary. "God's blessing here!" the wanderer cried, "Far, far be hell's black viper: Does anybody hereabouts Remember Caoch ...
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www.sdclifford.blogspot.com Irish Poetry at its best.
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From the All-Ireland Poetry Slam Championship, held at McHugh's in Belfast on May 11th 2007.
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From the All-Ireland Poetry Slam Championship, held at McHugh's in Belfast on May 11th 2007.
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Superstar poet/comedian Marcus Keeley takes a break from the daily grind of being deep to explore a little bit of the south of France. Filmed on location in Olonzac, France. marcuskeeley.blogspot.com
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To celebrate National Poetry Month and to conclude our Scholarship@Villanova Lecture series for the spring, Falvey Library welcomes three poets, Joseph Lennon, Nathalie Anderson and Mary Madec. They will read from their new poetry books about Ireland and Irish-America, among other subjects.
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From the All-Ireland Poetry Slam Championship, held at McHugh's in Belfast on May 11th 2007.
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IRISH POETRY, UNDER BEN BULBEN(EXCERPT)WORDS BY WB YEATS
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The final Poetry Ireland Introductions reading with Pauline Hall, David Mohan, Cliona O'Connell, Edward O'Dwyer and Rosie Shepperd.
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