Ceol & Filíocht Cois Farraige
- Location: Meet us at the Sea Scouts Den, Harbour Road, Skerries K34 WR85, just before the Sailing Club.
- Date and Time: Sat 16 September 2023, 11 am – 12.30 pm
- Languages: Bilingual: Irish / English. A limited number of assisted listening audio sets will be available.
- Tickets (on Eventbrite or on the day): FREE, but numbers are limited
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Walk/Siúlóid: Join local poet Enda Coyle-Greene on a magical walk of poetry and music with featured poets Maeve O’Sullivan, Victoria Melkovska and Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin.
Music by Naoise Mac Conghail and Lucy Killian.
If you like, why not bring along a poem, by yourself, or anyone you like, to share with fellow walkers?
Meeting point: Sea Scouts’ Den, just before Skerries Sailing Club, Harbour Road.
Enda Coyle-Greene
Enda Coyle-Greene was born in Dublin and lives in Skerries. She has published three collections with the Dedalus Press: Snow Negatives (2007) winner of the 2006 Patrick Kavanagh Award, Map of the Last (2013) and most recently, Indigo, Electric, Baby (2020).
Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Fingal Poetry Festival, she was the recipient of a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in 2020.
Image: Emer O’Sullivan
Maeve O’Sullivan
Maeve O’Sullivan is a part-time tutor of media in further education. Her long and short-form poetry have been widely published, anthologised, awarded and translated over the last 25 years. Maeve has published five collections with Alba Publishing: Initial Response (2011), Vocal Chords (2014), A Train Hurtles West (2015), Elsewhere (2017) and Wasp on the Prayer Flag (2021), all of which have received favourable reviews.
She is a former winner of the Listowel Writers’ Week Poetry Competition, her work has been nominated for the Forward Prize (poetry) and the Touchstone Award (haiku), and she is a regular recipient of the annual Haiku Euro Top 100 award, for the hundred ‘most active and creative’ haiku poets in Europe. She has had residencies at Birr (Offaly Co. Co.), Cill Rialaig, The Heinrich Boll Cottage and The Tyrone Guthrie Centre.
Maeve is a member of the Irish Writers’ Centre, the British Haiku Society and the Hibernian Poetry Workshop. She is also a member of the Poetry Divas spoken word collective. She leads workshops in haiku and related forms and has also written essays, features and reviews for a number of publications including The Poetry Ireland Review, The Dublin Review of Books and Books Ireland.
Website URL: www.maeveosullivan.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/writefromwithin
Facebook: www.facebook.com/maeveosullivanpoetry
Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin
Bhuaigh an cnuasach filíochta, ó pheann Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin, Agallamh sa Cheo, Cnoc Bhréanainn (Coiscéim, 2019), Duais Mícheál Hairtnéid 2021 agus Duais an Oireachtais 2018. Seo a ceathrú cnuasach filíochta. Bronnadh sparánacht Ealaíon na Gaeltachta (Údarás na Gaeltachta agus An Chomhairle Ealaíon) uirthi, i 2019 agus arís, le tacaíocht ó Éire Ildánach, i 2020. Is as Ros Eo an file agus drámadóir seo, a mhaireann anois i gCorca Dhuibhne, Co. Chiarraí.
Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin’s fourth and latest volume of poetry, Agallamh sa Cheo, Cnoc Bhréanainn (Coiscéim, 2019) earned her the prestigious Michael Hartnett Award 2021 and Duais an Oireachtais 2018. Three other volumes of her poetry have been published and two of her short dramas have been staged. The first bilingual volume of her poems, Let the Hare Sit, with translations by Paddy Bushe, is forthcoming from Dedalus Press. Ceaití’s work as a writer has been supported by the Irish Arts Council and Ealaíon na Gaeltachta (in collaboration with Údarás na Gaeltachta, the Arts Council and more recently by Creative Ireland). She was born and raised in Rush, Co. Dublin (Cathi Weldon) and currently lives in the West Kerry Gaeltacht.
The 2022 Fingal Poetry Prize was sponsored by DHL.
An Fiach Dubh, the Irish language poetry prize, was sponsored by Progressive Credit Union.
Naoise Mac Conghail
Is ceoltóir é Naoise Mac Conghail agus tá cumadóireacht ceoil go mór i measc a bhuanna. Is ball de SPÁSAS é.
Naoise is a creative musician and a member of the band SPÁSAS.
Tá Naoise agus Marcus Mac Conghail tar éis seinnt le chéile ag féiltí éagsúla in Éirinn le cúig bliana anuas. Chomh maith le bheith ag cur cló nua ar sheana-amhráin, tá an comhoibriú seobunaithe ar Naoise ag cruthú fuaimrianta do dhánta Mharcuis. In 2021 d’eisíodar a gcéad rian & físeán, ‘What Happens When There is Nothing’ agus anuraidh d’eisíodar ’Ag Fágaint’.
Naoise and Marcus Mac Conghail have played together at various festivals in Ireland for the past five years. As well as putting a new shape on traditional songs, this co-operation is based on Naoise creating soundscapes for Marcus’s poems. In 2021 they released their first track & video, ‘What Happens When There is Nothing’ and last year they released ‘Ag Fágaint’.
Lucy Killian
Lucy is a singer and musician who plays Irish harp, piano, flute, tin whistle and guitar.
She plays a variety of different genres, focusing on classical, trad and folk.
Lucy teaches piano, tin whistle and harp, and is an accomplished performer, providing music at weddings and a wide range of public events.
Secure your tickets now on Eventbrite (booking fees apply except for free events),
or come early – there will be some tickets available on the day.
Online booking ends 24 hours before the event starts.
💥 Go to our full programme here💥
Support by Fingal County Council, Poetry Ireland, roadstone and dhl is gratefully acknowledged.
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