Poems SignedSealedDelivered 2024 Dánta ó Bhéal

Poems SignedSealedDelivered 2024
Dánta ó Bhéal

This always-popular  lunchtime event showcases some of Ireland’s finest poets reading (in English and Irish). Not to be missed!

Join us for a bite of lunch while listening to this year’s featured poets Annemarie Ní Churreáin and Philip Cummings. Music by rising star, Sinéad White.

Unfortunately, the planned Irish Sign Language Interpretation is not possible this year. – You can expect some fascinating live poetry from our curated Open Mic! (The list for that is now full.)

• Venue: Skerries Sailing Club, Harbour Road, downstairs.
• Date and time: Saturday / Dé Sathairn 14/09/2024, 1.30 – 3 pm
• Bilingual, live music.
• Tickets €10 / €8 on Eventbrite (fees apply).
  There will be some tickets available on the day, come early!

This event is part of our BIG POETRY DAY OUT | Lá Mór Filíochta!
The festival events for the BIG POETRY DAY OUT / Lá Mór Filíochta are timed so that you can come to Skerries by train or bus, spend the day enjoying the Fingal Poetry Festival events all over town and leave after the last event of a fun and refreshing day, enveloped in sea air, poetry, music and art…

The last train from Skerries leaves at 10.29 pm (subject to timetable changes coming in late August), and there is a bus to Dublin at 11.27 pm from Strand Street.

Annemarie Ní Churreáin

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), Town (The Salvage Press, 2018) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021).

She is a recipient of the Arts Council’s Next Generation Artist Award and a co-recipient of The Markievicz Award. Her writing for stage has been performed at The Abbey National Theatre of Ireland.

The Yale Review has reported that Ní Churreáin “often captures a whole world of cultural and historical implications in a single, simple, but metaphorically rich image”. Ní Churreáin has held literary fellowships in the U.S. and throughout Europe. She is the poetry editor at The Stinging Fly magazine.

Photo of Annemarie Ní Churreáin by Barry McCall

Philip Cummings

Bhuaigh Philip Néalta (Coiscéim), a chéad chnuasach filíochta, duais na Gaeilge Glen Dimplex 2006, agus bhí sé ar an ghearrliosta don Rupert and Eithne Strong Award 2006. Bhí an dara cnuasach leis, An Fear sa Ghealach (Coiscéim), ar an ghearrliosta do Ghradam Filíochta Mhíchíl Uí Airtnéide 2012. Foilsíodh an tríú cnuasach, ad delectationem stultorum (Coiscéím) in 2012, ach ní raibh duaiseanna ar bith ag gabháil an bhliain sin.

Tá duaiseanna Oireachtais bainte aige don léirmheastóireacht ar an fhilíocht agus do dhráma raidió, agus bhuaigh dán leis Corn Uí Néill 2013.

Bhí sé ina eagarthóir ealaíon leis an nuachtán laethúil Lá Nua ó 2003 go dtí 2008, áit ar scríobh sé colún greannmhar aorach maraon le léirmheasanna. Foilsíodh díolaim de na colúin in Dar Liom (Coiscéim, 2008).

According to one of his fellow-poets, “Cummings is ploughing in a beautiful field of his own in Modern-Irish poetry.” To date, this agricultural activity has been on show in three individual collections. He has also published a collection of satirical columns from his days as Arts Editor of an Irish-language daily newspaper, when such a thing existed in print.

Sinéad White

Sinéad White is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist from Leixlip, Co. Kildare.

She is a compulsive collaborator and has written and performed with artists such as Daithí, Elaine Mai, Pa Sheehy – and is currently a member of the band Houseplants.

Her most recent EP ”Bye Chicken” was released in 2022 and according to Hotpress showcases ”a remarkable voice that continues to mark Sinéad as a powerful and wholly original force.”

She is currently working on an EP and podcast about being an artist.

Poets Annemarie Ní Churreáin & Philip Cummings will be reading in English and Irish while interpreted through Irish Sign Language. Music: Sinéad White