Launching the 2024 Fingal Poetry Festival Programme

The Fingal Poetry Festival, returning to Skerries on September 13-15th 2024, offers a diverse program including poetry walks, performances, workshops, and inclusive events for all ages. Highlights include a mandala creation, a poetry slam, family activities, and jazz performances, ending with in an Ardgillan Poetry Walk on Sunday.

The 2024 Fingal Poetry Competitions Launch Today!

From 1 May to midnight on June 30th, 2024, poets can submit their entries to both Fingal Poetry Competitions, An Fiach Dubh: Comórtas Filíochta as Gaeilge and The Fingal Poetry Prize. The first prize for each is €500, with second prizes (€300) and third prizes (€200) also awarded. The competitions are part of the FingalContinue reading “The 2024 Fingal Poetry Competitions Launch Today!”

The 2023 Poetry Competitions Winners

While we are preparing for the 2024 poetry competitions (details to follow soon), we would like to extend our long overdue congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Fingal Poetry Prize and An Fiach Dubh: Fingal Poetry Prize Special mentions: An Fiach Dubh Celebrating the Winners at the 2023 Festival Readings by the judges ofContinue reading “The 2023 Poetry Competitions Winners”

Fingal Poetry Festival 2023 featuring The Big Poetry Day Out

Fingal Poetry Festival returns to Skerries on the 15-16th September 2023. This year we are thrilled to feature the always-popular Fingal Poetry Grand Slam and to launch The Big Poetry Day Out — a trail of events that showcase emerging and established poets from across the island. Our mission is to connect people with theContinue reading “Fingal Poetry Festival 2023 featuring The Big Poetry Day Out”

2022 Poetry Competition Results

We are delighted to announce the winners of our two international poetry competitions, as unveiled during the Fingal Poetry Festival. Is cúis áthais dúinn buaicfhilí ár gcomórtaisí filíochta a ainmniú. Congratulations!! Comhghairdeas leo! We want to thank everyone for entering, the judges were delighted with the quality of poems submitted and the diversity of voices.Continue reading “2022 Poetry Competition Results”

Looking forward to Fingal Poetry Festival 2022

The Fingal Poetry Festival 2022 is promising to be another exciting celebration of poetry and music, running from September 15th to 18th.  However, we are very happy to announce that we also have a number of events lined up to take place before the Festival weekend. 1) Calling all performance poets! We are  running POETRY SLAMS inContinue reading “Looking forward to Fingal Poetry Festival 2022”

An Fiach Dubh: Duaisdhánta foilsithe

An Fiach Dubh, comórtas filíochta Gaeilge a rith Féile Filíochta Fhine Gall –  Tá na duaisdhánta ón chomórtas seo foilsithe anois i bhFeasta – Meán Fómhair 2021, imleabhar 74, uimhir 09, thar dhá leathanach ar a bhfuil dearadh aoibhinn déanta orthu. The Fiach Dubh, Irish language poetry competition run by the Fingal Poetry Festival – The winning poemsContinue reading “An Fiach Dubh: Duaisdhánta foilsithe”

It was Sheer Poetry

The following article by our honorary secretary and committee member, Angela Murphy, first appeared in Skerries News on 1 October 2021. ON Seamus Heaney’s headstone is a quotation from one of his poems: walk on air against your better judgement Reflecting on the the second Fingal Poetry Festival that took place over four days inContinue reading “It was Sheer Poetry”