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 […]
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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, […]
Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust opens call for 2020 Student Award
The generous recognition by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust opened the door to a world of wisdom, warmth and support. As an international student in Ireland, I often questioned my right to write from — and in — this place, this tradition. The award shored up my belief in my self and gifted me […]
The President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins has announced Frank Ormsby as the next Ireland Professor of Poetry
Frank Ormsby was announced as the next Ireland Professor of Poetry, by President Michael D Higgins at a reception in Queens University Belfast. Ormsby will be the eighth Irish Professor of Poetry, taking over from its current holder, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, at the end of October until November 2022. Ormsby said of his appointment: “the […]
Winners of inaugural Ireland Chair of Poetry Student Prize
The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust is delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 Student Prize. The Trustees initiated the prize this year in line with their focus on encouraging the writing of poetry within the three Universities who support the Trust. The Trustees, together with the current Ireland Professor of Poetry Eiléan Ní […]
Announcement of Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award to Laurence O’Dwyer
The Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust are delighted to announce that Laurence O’Dwyer will be the third recipient of the Ireland Chair of Poetry Travel Award. Laurence who holds a PhD in paradigms of memory formation from Trinity College Dublin published his first collection of poetry, Tractography in 2018 (Templar, 2018) and received the Straid […]
Reading by the Ireland Professor of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
The Ireland Professor of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will read from her work in the J.M. Synge Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday 3rd April at 7.30pm. RSVP to irelandchairofpoetry@gmail.com.
Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary awarded to Dylan Brennan
The trustees of the Ireland Chair of Poetry are delighted to announce that Dylan Brennan is the recipient of the 2018 Ireland Chair of Poetry bursary. The poet was nominated by the Ireland Professor of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and the nomination was welcomed and confirmed by the trustees of the Board of the Ireland Chair […]
Annual lecture by Ireland Professor of Poetry Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin on Thursday 28th March
The Ireland Professor of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin will repeat her annual lecture entitled ”Instead of a Shrine: Poetry and Ritual” in McMordie Hall, Music Building, University Square, Queen’s University Belfast at 7.00pm. To RSVP please contact Niamh McCabe by email at irelandchairofpoetry@gmail.com