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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]