The Ireland Chair of Poetry are delighted to welcome the Ireland Professor of Poetry Paul Muldoon to the Museum of Literature Ireland, St. Stephen’s Green, on February 1st 2024, for a reading of his recent poems. Tickets are available via the Museum of Literature Ireland website here
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to welcome the Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paul Muldoon, back to Irish shores this coming Spring, 2024. Professor Paul Muldoon will be resident in Trinity College, Dublin, for the Spring 2024 semester, where he will host a series of events including his seminar series entitled How to Read […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry and UCD Press are delighted to announce the launch of The World Unmade, Writings by Frank Ormsby, the Ireland Professor of Poetry 2019 – 2022, on October 6th, in the Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast. This is the next in the series of The Poet’s Chair, and it will be available […]
The trustees of the Ireland Chair of Poetry are delighted to announce Molly Twomey as the recipient of the 2023 Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary. Molly was nominated by the Ireland Professor of Poetry, Paul Muldoon and the nomination was confirmed by the trustees of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust. The Ireland Chair of […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry are delighted to announce Dane Holt as the recipient of the 2023 Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award. Dane will receive an award of £2,000 to facilitate his journey to Paris, France. Commenting on this year’s Travel Award the adjudication panel, comprised of the Trustees together with the current Ireland […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Student Award. Now in its fourth year, the Student Award is an initiative encouraging the writing of poetry within the three universities that support the Trust. The Trust has awarded the following students: Rhiannon McGavin Shakeema Edwards Simon Goligher Emma Buckley […]
Ireland Professor of Poetry Paul Muldoon will read in the Thomas Davis Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin on Thursday 2nd March at 19:30. The reading is free to attend but spaces are limited so registration is required. To register your place please click here. “To describe Paul Muldoon’s influence on contemporary poetry is like […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to open the call for submissions to the 2023 Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award. The Travel Award was established in order to assist poets in their creative development and specifically to help realise a project requiring travel within or outside Ireland and offers an award of £2,000 […]
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to open the call for submissions to the 2023 Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award. Now in its fourth year, the award was created to encourage and assist students who are pursuing Masters degrees in Creative Writing or in Poetry. This award is open to Masters students studying […]
Professor Paul Muldoon has been announced as the next Ireland Professor of Poetry at a small reception hosted by President of Ireland, Michael D Higgins, in Áras an Uachtaráin. Professor Paul Muldoon will be the ninth Ireland Professor of Poetry, taking over from the current holder, Professor Frank Ormsby. The position will run until November […]