| Strokestown
International Poetry Festival 2007/ Féile
Filíochta Bhéal Átha na
mBuillí 2007 Timetable of events |
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| Friday 4th May 2007 | ||||
| 7.00pm | Strokestown Park House | Official Opening Introduction by Pat Compton, Chairman of the Strokestown Poetry Festival |
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| 7.30pm | Strokestown Park House | Readings: Pat Boran, Moya Cannon and Michael Schmidt | ||
| 8.30pm | Percy French Hotel |
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| Night | Various pubs |
Heats
of the pub poetry competition |
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| Saturday 5th May 2007 | ||||
| 10.00am | The Percy French Hotel |
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| 11.15 am | The Percy French Hotel | Readings:Maureen Boyle, Tadhg Ó Dúshláine, Annie Bien, Eric Ormsby | ||
| 12.00pm | Strokestown Park House | Schools Poetry Competition, presented by Patrick O'Brien | ||
| 1.00pm | Strokestown Park House |
Garden tour with John O' Driscoll |
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| 2.30pm | Strokestown Park House | Readings: Eva
Bourke
and Eiléan Ní
Chuilleanáin |
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| 4.30pm | Strokestown Park House |
Duais Cholmcille: Announcement and Presentation of The Strokestown Irish/Scottish Gaelic Poetry Awards. Sponsored by Colmcille |
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| 7.30pm | Strokestown Park House |
Reading: Gerry Murphy, Michael O'Loughlin |
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| 8.45pm | The Percy French Hotel |
Announcement and presentation
of The Political
Satire Awards with John Waters |
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| Night | Various pubs |
Heats
of the pub poetry competition |
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| Sunday 6th May 2007 | ||||
| 10.00am | The Percy French Hotel | Readings: Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin, Mick Delap, Victoria Field | ||
| 11.15am | The Percy French Hotel | Readings: Erik Vatne, Mark Granier, Simon Ó Faoláin, Mona Claudia Striewe | ||
| 12.15pm | The Percy French Hotel | Readings:
Launch of the poetry magazine Cyphers |
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| 1.15pm | Percy French Hotel | Reading: Tommy Murray reads a selection of favourite popular poems | ||
| 2.15pm | Strokestown Park House | Readings: Meg Bateman and Paddy Bushe | ||
| 3.30pm | Strokestown Park House |
The Gaelic Hit Factory: Music and Poetry from John Spillane and Louis de Paor |
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| 7.00pm | Strokestown Park House | Strokestown Choral Group | ||
| 7.30pm | Strokestown Park House |
Strokestown
International Poetry Prizes, with judges Michael
Schmidt, Pat Boran and
Moya Cannon |
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| Night | Pub, to be announced | Final of Pub Poetry Competition | ||
| Monday 7th May 2007 | ||||
| 11.00 am |
Guided walk on
Sliabh Bán with Pat Compton |
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| 3.00pm |
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Meg Bateman was born in Edinburgh in 1959. She studied Celtic at Aberdeen University and completed a PhD in Classical Gaelic religious poetry. She went on to teach in the Celtic Department at Aberdeen, and now lectures at Sabhal Mór Ostaig on Skye. She has published three collections: Òrain Ghaoil/Amhráin Ghrá, Coiscéim 1989, Aotromachd agus Dàin Eile/Lightness and Other Poems, Polygon 1997 and Soirbheas/Fair Wind, Birlinn 2006. She appears in numerous anthologies and has also translated Gaelic poetry into English in An Anthology of Scottish Women Poets (1991) and The Harp’s Cry (1993). Pat Boran is the author of poetry and short fiction for adults and children, as well as four non-fiction titles. 2005 saw the publication of his New and Selected Poems by Salt Publishing, UK, as well as the publication by New Island of an expanded and updated edition of his popular writers’ handbook, The Portable Creative Writing Workshop. Former Programme Director of the annual Dublin Writers Festival, Boran is also editor of the Dedalus Press. Paddy Bushe was born in Dublin in 1948 and writes in both English and Irish. His poetry collections include Poems With Amergin (Beaver Row Press, 1989), Teanga (Coiscéim, 1990), Counsellor (Sceilg Press, 1991), Digging Towards The Light (Dedalus Press, 1994), In Ainneoin na gCloch (Coiscéim, 2001), Hopkins on Skellig Michael (Dedalus Press, 2001) and, most recently, The Nitpicking of Cranes (Dedalus, 2004) and Gile na Gile (2005). He was the Director of the Strokestown Festival from 2004-2006. He lives in Kerry. Moya Cannon was born in Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal in 1956 and now lives in Galway. She has published two collections of poems, Oar, (Salmon Press, Galway,1990; Poolbeg Press, Dublin, 1994; Gallery Press, Meath, 2000) and The Parchment Boat (Gallery Press, 1997). A third collection, Carrying the Songs, will be published by Carcanet Press in 2007. A recipient of the Brendan Behan Award and of the Lawrence O Shaughnessy Award, she was elected to Aosdána in 2004. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in Cork City in 1942. She has won the Irish Times award for poetry, the Patrick Kavanagh Award, and the O'Shaughnessy Award of the Irish-American Cultural Institute. Her collections include Acts and Monuments (1972), Site of Ambush (1975), The Second Voyage (1977, 1986), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene Sermon (1989) which was shortlisted for the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award, The Brazen Serpent (1994) and The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001). Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. She is married to Macdara Woods and they have a son, Niall. Gerry Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. His poetry collections include A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (1985, 1992) and four previous collections from Dedalus, Rio de la Plata and All That (1993), The Empty Quarter (1995), Extracts from the Lost Log-Book of Christopher Columbus (1999) and Torso of an Ex-Girlfriend (2002). End of Part One: New & Selected Poems (2006) features generous selections from all of those books together with some 30 new poems. Born in Cork in 1961, Louis de Paor has been involved with the contemporary rennaissance of poetry in Irish since 1980, when he was first published in the poetry journal Innti (which he subsequently edited). A four-time winner of the Seán Ó Ríordáin/Oireachtas Award, the premier award for a new collection of poems in Irish, he lived in Australia from 1987 to 1996. He is the recipient of the 2000 Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award and his most recent collection is Ag Greadadh Bas sa Reilig/ Clapping in the Cemetery, Cló Iar-Chonnachta, Indreabhán, 2005. Michael Schmidt is founder and editorial director of Carcanet Press, and has also been editor of PN Review for thirty three years. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Glasgow. His first collection, Black Buildings, was published in 1969; more recently he has published a Selected Poems, 1972-1997 (1997). Other books include Lives of the Poets (1998) and The First Poets: Lives of the Ancient Greek Poets, was published in 2004, and a new collection of poems,The Resurrection of the Body, will be published this year. John Spillane is a native of Cork, the county he lovingly describes as ‘the centre of the universe’ and it has been a huge influence on this singer / songwriter. Before embarking on his solo career, John honed his live skills playing for over seven years with Cork based The Stargazers and more recently toured the globe for five years as singer with trad giants, Nomos. Spillane and Louis De Paor have often paired up on projects as The Gaelic Hit Factory and the album with the same title came out in 2006. John’s solo albums include Will We Be Brilliant Or What? , which won the prestigious Meteor Ireland Music Award in the Best Folk/Traditional Act category, and Hey Dreamer. John has his own Radio Show on RnaG. The show is called Rogha John Spillane and is broadcasted from 9.pm pm to 11pm pm every Sunday night. John Waters was born in Castlerea, Co Roscommon. A writer, playwright and journalist, his books include Jiving at the Crossroads (Blackstaff, 1991), Race of Angels: The Genesis of U2 (Trafalgar Square, 1996), An Intelligent Persons’ Guide to Modern Ireland, (Duckworth, 200), The Politburo Has Decided You Are Unwell, (Liffey Press, 2004). His plays include Easter Dues and Long Black Coat. He lives in Dublin. |
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