Poetry Walk at the Harbour 2024 Siúlóid Cois Cuain 

Poetry Walk at the Harbour 2024
Siúlóid Cois Cuain 

An annual Fingal Poetry Festival favourite, with added dancing!

Led by poet Enda Coyle-Greene with readings by our special guests, poets Lani O’Hanlon and Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin and also featuring Sean Nós dancer Alison O’Grady and concertina player Brenda Castles.

Join us in the scenic surroundings of Skerries Harbour for the freshest of fresh air, fine poetry, great music, and a dance or two on the first of our poetry walks.

And why not bring along a poem, by yourself or anyone you like, to share with your fellow walkers?

If the weather agrees, why not bring your lunch, have it on the beach and then head to the next event, or drop into one of the eateries along the Harbour or in the town centre…

• Venue: Red Island / Skerries Harbour (downstairs in the Sailing Club if the weather is inclement)
• Meeting Place: Skerries Sailing Club, Harbour Road
• Date and time: Saturday / Dé Sathairn 14/09/2024, 11 am to 12.30 pm (approximately)
• Bilingual, live music, dancing.
• Free, but ticketed: Reserve yours on Eventbrite.
  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.

Enda Coyle-Greene

Enda Coyle-Greene’s first collection, Snow Negatives, won the Patrick Kavanagh Award in 2006 and was published by the Dedalus Press in 2007. This was followed by Map of the Last (2013) and Indigo, Electric, Baby (2020), both also from Dedalus.

A co-founder of Fingal Poetry Festival, she was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in 2020.

Lani O’Hanlon

Lani is a dance artist, somatic movement therapist and writer living in a renovated cottage beside the sea in County Waterford. Her poetry collection Landscape of the Body was published in 2023 by the Dedalus Press. Her poetry is widely published and broadcast on RTE’s Sunday Miscellany. She was the winner of the Poetry Ireland Trocair Award in 2022 and other prizes include the Bridport Prize, Poetry on the Lake and the Hennessy New Irish Writing.

‘Her work sings of the sacred wild within the body and the sacred wild of the Earth.’
Grace Wells

Photo of Lani O’Hanlon by Eileen Hand.

Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin

Is file, scríbhneoir, ceoltóir agus amhránaí í Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin. Scairdeann an fhilíocht amach aisti ach níl sí déistineach. Tá a cuid filíochta curtha ar stáitse aici ar árdáin éagsúla, ag REIC, ag an Winter Warmer Festival (a ritheann Ó Bhéal Chorcaí) agus a thuilleadh nach iad. Tá mórán duaiseanna bainte ag a saothar scríofa, agus tá an dán Labhrann Broinn ar an saothar is déanaí aici atá fé ghradam, (an tarna háit) sa chomórtas ‘An Fiach Dubh’ ag an Fingal Poetry Festival sa bhliain 2023. Ba rannpháirtí í sa chlár Céadlínte Éigse Éireann in 2023. Is féidir a saothar a léamh sna cnuasaigh Taking Back the House: Poetry Ireland Introductions 2023, Lampa ar Lasadh: Gradam Mháire Mhac an tSaoi agus Washing Windows Too: Irish Women Write Poetry, agus sna hirisí Comhar, Feasta, Poetry Ireland Review, agus The Stinging Fly.

Gormfhlaith Ní Shíocháin Ní Bheoláin is a poet, writer, musician and singer. She is a seasoned performer. Her creative work has won many awards and has appeared in various publications (see Irish above).

Photo of Gormfhlaith by Danni Ronan.

Alison O’Grady

Is damhsóir ar an sean-nós í Alison O’Grady.

Alison O’Grady is a sean-nós dancer.

Brenda Castles

Brenda Castles hails from Co. Meath and honed her concertina skills under the tutelage of Mícheál Ó’Raghallaigh. With two solo albums showcasing her mastery of Irish music on the concertina, Brenda is a seasoned performer and often graced stages alongside Mick Moloney’s Green Fields of America. Notable recent performances include headlining solo concerts at Temple Bar TradFest, Meath Beo, the Pipers Club and the Consairtín festival in Ennis. Beyond her musical endeavours, Brenda has delved into the realm of film, creating and producing the evocative short film ‘Plight of the Bumble Bee,’ complete with a traditionally inspired soundtrack of her own composition.

An annual Fingal Poetry Festival favourite, with added dancing! Meet at the Sailing Club, Harbour Road. Indoors if weather is inclement.