Féile Filíochta Fhine Gall  

WELCOME!!

FÁILTE !!

Fingal Poetry Festival is back in 2026  

Féile Filíochta Fhine Gall ar ais arís 2026

WE HOPE TO SEE YOU ON FRIDAY 11TH OF SEPTEMBER  IN SKERRIES MILLS from 7 pm!!

Táimid ag tnúth libh a fheiscint Aoine 11ú Meán Fómhair, 7 i.n.!!

We are back, ready to rekindle some poetry and music magic.

We have decided to return to our origins – POETRY @ THE MILLS. This is where we started out during the Skerries Soundwaves Festival more than 20 years ago.

FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY – DON’T MISS IT

Tickets will be available via Eventbrite – check closer to the time, and at the door in Skerries Mills – Limited capacity – don’t miss it!

We are excited to present to you readings by three wonderful poets:

Tá triúr filí den scoth ar an gclár:

Keith Payne

A Katherine and Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship recipient in 2025, author of eleven collections of translation and original poetry, Keith’s work has also featured on BBC radio 3’s The Essay.

Curator of the Aodh Ruadh O’Domnaill Poetry Exchange Ireland/Galicia, his most recent collection, Savage Acres, was published by the Dedalus Press in 2025.

Áine Uí Fhoghlú

File den scoth is ea Áine Uí Fhoghlú, máistreacht iontach aici ar mheafar, friotal agus rithim. Ceiliúradh ar chultúir, ar dhaoine agus ar theanga, atá sa chnuasach is déanaí uaithi, Scéal ó Carolina seoid de chnuasach trí theangach: Gaeilge, Spáinnis agus Béarla.

Áine Uí Fhoghlú’s poetry delights the ear and the heart. Her latest collection is a trilingual one with a cast of stunning translators who transpose her work to Spanish and to English, a work which transports us so readily to Argentina with all of that country’s flavours.

Jane Clarke 

Editor of the anthology Windfall: Irish Nature Poems to Inspire and Connect (Hachette Books Ireland, 2023) and co-author with Catherine Cleary of The Hare’s Corner: Making Space for Nature (New Island Books, 2025). Jane’s third collection, A Change in the Air, was shortlisted in 2023 for both the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her new collection with Bloodaxe Press, Coracle, will be published later this year.  

and music by Keith Burke and Friends  

agus ceol le Keith Burke agus Cairde 

Dublin Songwriter and Skerries native Keith Burke has released four original albums. “The Dancer who Stole your Shoes” in 2004, “No One Wants to Move” in 2008, “These Boys” in 2016, and in 2025 he returned with “A day to celebrate”. 
Recent singles “I’ll begin this letter”, “Before you go” and “That’s where the bees loved to go” have been well received and played on national and regional radio stations in Ireland and the UK, with the latter featuring on Derek Mooney’s nature show “Mooney goes wild.”

Join us on Fri 11 September 2026 from 7 pm in the unique setting of Skerries Mills!

Bígí linn Dé hAoine, 11ú Méan Fomhair, 7 i.n., ag an suíomh speisialta Muillinn na Sceirí!

Go directly to our look back on the 2024 Festival

A look back to the 2024 festival

The 2024 Fingal Poetry Festival was our fifth outing as Ireland’s friendliest, most inclusive poetry festival. Running from the 13^th – 15^th September 2024, we had something for everybody! Along with new and exciting events, we brought back some firm favourites — our Poetry Walks by the sea and through the forest, our lunchtime reading and our Family Fest for younger poetry lovers, and much, much more — all, as usual, in the company of music, poetry’s first cousin. A special treat was enjoyed by fans of blues and jazz this year….

If you were at our festival this year, we would value your feedback!

We are very proud of this year’s line-up of diverse poets, reading their works in Irish and English, and to have secured perfect musical pairings for their words for each event. See a review of our events here.

For generations, visitors would come to Skerries for a day out by the sea. We continued this tradition with an invitation to the BIG POETRY DAY OUT   LÁ MÓR FILÍOCHTA on Saturday 14^th September. A day full of fun discovery and poetry and music in different locations around Skerries, making the most of its natural beauty.

We had timed our events in such a way that visitors could reach us with an early bus/train and will be able to get the last bus/train back home again. As inclusivity is one of our core values, we have ensured that all our venues are fully accessible.

We are very grateful to our sponsors, and the large team of volunteers, without whom none of this would be possible!

We hope you enjoyed the weekend, with poetry and music, in often unexpected places, but always with a big smile of welcome!

féile agus craic ● Filíocht agus ceol ● agus fáilte roimh cách

Ernestine Woelger, Chair

Until the next time, keep poetry in your lives…. listen to our podcast (now in its 3rd season) … subscribe to our new newsletter… and keep checking in with us for all our news…

Funding for the 2024 festival from Fingal County Council, the Arts Council and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature is gratefully acknowledged. With support from Poetry Ireland.

Please visit our iDonate page and support our work!

Thank you for joining us for the 2024 Poetry Slams!

Read all about them on our Fingal Poetry Slams 2024 page.

Look back on our 2023 Festival

With photographs from all events, thanks to Niall O’Reilly, Ann Rooney and Donal Greene.