The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to open the call for submissions to the 2024 Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Award. Now in its fifth year, the award was created to encourage and assist students who are pursuing Master’s degrees in Creative Writing or Poetry. This award is open to Masters students studying for […]
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Ireland Chair of Poetry Opens Call for 2024 Travel Award
The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to open the call for submissions to the 2024 Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award. The Travel Award was established 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 to do […]
A Reading of recent poems by Prof. Paul Muldoon at MoLI
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
Ireland Professor of Poetry Paul Muldoon’s Spring 2024 Programme
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 […]
Reading by Professor Paul Muldoon in Trinity College Dublin
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 […]
Paul Muldoon announced as the new Ireland Professor of Poetry
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 […]
Nominations requested for Ireland Chair of Poetry
Professor Frank Ormsby will complete his term as Ireland Professor of Poetry in October 2022 and the Ireland Chair of Poetry now invites nominations to fill this prestigious role. The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established by the Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Trinity College Dublin, Queen’s University […]
Ireland Chair of Poetry Announce Winners of the 2021 Project Award
The Ireland Chair of Poetry are delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 Project Award. The Project Award was established in order to assist poets in their creative development and specifically to help realise a project of imagination. Given the incredibly high standard of submissions, the adjudication panel decided to award three poets a […]
Professor Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin wins 2020 Irish Times Poetry Now award
The winner of this year’s Irish Times Poetry Now award is Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin, former Ireland Chair of Poetry. Ní Chuilleanáin received the award for her the work of her tenth collection The Mother House, published by Gallery Press. Ní Chuilleanáin had been due to be presented with the €2,000 prize at the Mountains to Sea festival however […]
Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust opens call for 2020 Travel Award
Journeys outside of Ireland form an important part of my work, so the Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award has been a godsend in supporting my work. With this funding I was able to take up a writer-in-residence position with RaumArs – an artist association in Rauma, Finland, where I worked on my current project, […]