The Irish Literary Times

Congratulations to Doireann Ní Ghríofa on the publication of her first English language collection of poems, Clasp (Dedalus Press). Doireann, of course, featured early on in Uimhir a Cúig (in colla...

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a bilingual poet writing both in Irish and in English. Although the written poems appear on the page in a single language, the thought processes to create them are borne of a...

Online Poetry Publisher - Smithereens Press, latest chapbook SP8: Dordéan, do Chroí � A Hummingbird, your Heart by Doireann Ní Ghríofa.

Swallows The knitting needles drew melodies from silence as stitches seemed to follow one another like swallows alighting upon a wire, watching the tiny dress of softest yellow wool grow like a sun...

Cleaving a Puzzle-Tree   1.   I didn’t see my grandmother’s tree in Chile, araucaria araucana, though they grow tall there and are many. I must have walked under them every day, tripped over their ...

In memory of Margaret Maher, housemaid and confidante of Emily Dickinson

The Arts Council is pleased to announce that Paula Meehan has chosen her first selection for the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award. Doireann Ní Ghríofa is the Bursary recipient for 2014-15. She is the first awardee of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary to be chosen by Paula Meehan since her appointment as Ireland Professor of Poetry.  Previous winners of the award include accomplished poets Jessica Traynor, Billy Ramsell, Dave Lordan, Miriam Gamble, Leanne O' Sullivan, Leontia Flynn, Maureen Boyle, Nick Laird, Iggy McGovern and Alice Lyons. The award is a major national honour and gives the winner four weeks at the famous Tyrone Guthrie artist's retreat in County Monaghan to concentrate on the creation of new work.

You can listen to Doireann Ní Ghríofa's poem 'Skype' here. * What is poetry and what brought you to it? In addition to asking What is poetry and what brought you to it?, I would turn that question ...