Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann

Athlone’s Aidan Heavey Library will come alive with voice, song, and music as it hosts A Gathering of Poems later this month. 📅Tuesday 21 April 🕔5:00pm 📍Aidan Heavey Library, Athlone, Westmeath 🎫Free 🔗Details: poetryireland.ie/news-events/pa…

🎤✨ REIC: Multilingual spoken word night featuring poetry, rap, music and storytelling 📅Friday 17 April 🕖7:00pm 📍International Centre for the Image 🎫€17 Presented in association with Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann 🔗 Info/Tickets via: poetryireland.ie/news-events/pa…

🎤🏠Planning an event for May 28th that aligns with Poetry Day Ireland? Make it part of the nationwide celebration by registering your event to be included in the official Poetry Day Ireland events programme. 🔗Register your event here: form.jotform.com/260893107207355

✨Bring your Poetry Day Ireland Ideas to life with the Bright Ideas Bursary!✨ Bright Ideas is designed to support and enable individuals, groups, venues and organisations to present and promote projects celebrating poetry on the 28th May 2026. 🔗Apply: form.jotform.com/260894601242354

Join us for the Desmond O’Grady Memorial Reading - an evening of poetry, reflection, and tribute. 📅Wednesday 15 April 🕔7:30pm 📍The People's Museum of Limerick 🎫Free With readings from Jamie O'Halloran, Sean Lysaght and Jo Slade. 🔗Details: poetryireland.ie/news-events/pa…

✨Poetry Day Ireland is an annual island-wide celebration of poetry. ✨ Poetry Day Ireland 2026 will take place on Thursday 28th May with the theme of 'Home'. 🏠❤ 🔗 Check out our website for more details. poetryireland.ie/poetry-day-ire…

Join us as we close our inaugural Eavan Boland Weekend with a powerful celebration of her enduring poetic legacy. ✨ 📅 Saturday 25 April @ 6:30pm 📍 James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great Georges Street, Dublin 1 🎟️ Tickets via poetryireland.ie/news-events/ea…

Join acclaimed poet Jane Hirshfield for Unlatching the Poem, a special one-hour masterclass as part of the Eavan Boland Weekend. ✍️✨ 📅 Saturday 25 April @ 11:45 – 1:00pm 📍 James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great Georges Street, Dublin 1 🎟️ Tickets via poetryireland.ie/news-events/ea…

Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann is delighted to welcome Jane Hirshfield and Paula Meehan for a poetry reading as part of the inaugural Eavan Boland Weekend. 📅 Friday 24 April @ 6:30pm 📍James Joyce Centre, Dublin 1 🎟️ Tickets via poetryireland.ie/news-events/ea…

Ireland Professor of Poetry Vona Groarke reads at @MoLI_Museum, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, on Thurs 9 April. A rare chance to hear work spanning Shale (1994) to Infinity Pool (2025). Free, booking essential. Reserve your seat: eventbrite.ie/e/198552016927…

🎺Poetry Ireland is delighted to announce Dagogo Hart as guest editor of Trumpet Issue 15. 🎺 Dagogo’s issue will focus on themes of resistance and connection in ‘a world on fire’. 🔗Read more about Dagogo and Trumpet Issue 15 on our website: poetryireland.ie/news/poetry-ir…

Off The Scéal is back for our first session of the year, with special guest Kiruu!🎤✨ Join us for a Multilingual Open Mic Night celebrating stories, poems, comedy, music, and spoken word in any language you care to bring. 🔗Details: poetryireland.ie/whats-on/off-t…

👩🏻‍🏫📖 Children's author Natasha Mac a’Bháird chats with the students of Assumption Junior NS Walkinstown during a recent visit on our Writers in Schools programme. 🔗Check out our website for more details on Writers in Schools. poetryireland.ie/education/writ…

Lá Fhéile Pádraig shona daoibh go léir ón Éigse Éireann. Is mór an onóir dúinn cultúr, teanga agus filíocht na hÉireann a cheiliúradh in Éigse Éireann i rith na mbliana, agus go háirithe inniu. Seo dán 'An Dara Bás' le Áine Ní Ghlinn, ó Poetry Ireland Review 147.

Making the Poem Spring Programme 2026 continues with readings and interview with Mary O'Malley. 📅28th March 📍Westside Library, Galway 🕔2:00pm 🎫Free 🔗More details poetryireland.ie/whats-on/makin…

Speak Your Truth The Poetry Lounge, hosted by Ger Duffy returns this March. 📅Saturday 28th March 🕔2:00 - 4:00 pm 📍Waterford Art Gallery, O'Connell Street, Waterford. 🎫Free 🔗 Details: poetryireland.ie/whats-on/speak…

Today we take the time to celebrate all the brilliant women in our lives for International Women's Day ♥💪 See here Moyra Donaldson's 'A Dangerous Woman' from Poetry Ireland Review Issue 81, edited by Peter Sirr.

Making the Poem Spring Programme 2026 continues with readings and interview with Patrick Chapman. 📆21st March 🕢2:00pm 📌Westside Library, Galway 🎫 Free 🔗More details poetryireland.ie/whats-on/makin…

Making the Poem Spring Programme 2026 kicks off with readings and interview with Rosamund Taylor. 📆7th March 🕢2:00pm 📌Westside Library, Galway 🎫 Free 🔗More details: poetryireland.ie/whats-on/makin…

Come along to Women in Revival, an event in Kinsale to celebrate International Women’s Day in poetry. Anne Rath, Fiona Smith and Bernadette Gallagher will read. 📆7th March 🕢3:00 pm 📌Kinsale Library, Kerry 🎫Free 🔗See details: poetryireland.ie/whats-on/women…