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Hibernian Writers: Afric McGlinchey

Hibernian Writers: Afric McGlinchey

Afric McGlinchey Afric McGlinchey grew up in Ireland and Africa. A Hennessy Poetry Award winner,  other awards include the Northern Liberties Prize (Editors’ Choice) 2012, and the Poets Meet Politics prize in 2015. She was also a Pushcart and Forward nominee, and highly commended in the Bridport, Magma, Joy of Sex, Westport, Poets Meet Painters, O’Bhéal, North West Words, Gregory O’Donoghue and…

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Hibernian Writers: Amanda Bell

Hibernian Writers: Amanda Bell

Amanda Bell is a freelance editor living in Dublin. She completed a Masters in Poetry Studies in DCU in 2012, which proved a catalyst for her own writing, and since that time her work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Burning Bush 2, Crannóg, The Ofi Press Literary Magazine, Skylight 47, The Clearing online, and in haiku journals Presence, Blithe Spirit, shamrock, cattails, and haibun today.…

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Hibernian Writers: Annette Skade

Hibernian Writers: Annette Skade

Annette Skade   What is your earliest memory of poetry at home or in school? From Ancient Volumes of the Children’s Encyclopaedia, with beautiful black and white illustrations. Mainly narrative poems, tales of derring-do, like the Rime of the Ancient Mariner. I have a clear memory of sitting on the step of our house in Manchester and checking out the names of the Constellations from the same…

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Hibernian Writers: Maeve O’Sullivan MAEVE O'SULLIVAN works as a media lecturer in the further education sector in Dublin. Her poems and haiku have been widely published and anthologised since the mid-1990s, and she is a former poetry winner at Listowel Writer’s Week.

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Hibernian Writers: John Saunders

Hibernian Writers: John Saunders

 JOHN SAUNDERS is a founder member of the Hibernian Writers’ Group. His collections are After the Accident (Lapwing Press, 2010) and Chance (New Binary Press, 2013). One of three featured poets in Measuring, Dedalus New Writers, 2012, he was shortlisted in the 2012 inaugural Desmond O’Grady Poetry Competition and is a 2014 Pushcart Nominee. John’s poems have appeared in journals in Ireland, the…

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Hibernian Writers: Brian Kirk What is your earliest memory of poetry at home or in school? At school, I enjoyed Kavanagh and Yeats, but I also found myself drawn to George Herbert, John Donne and Hopkins.

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Hibernian Writers: Breda Wall Ryan BREDA WALL RYAN grew up on a farm in County Waterford and now lives in County Wicklow.

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Hibernian Writers: Kevin Conroy

Kevin Conroy KEVIN CONROY was born in Dublin and is currently living in Kildare, has worked in U.K., Germany, Swaziland, South Africa, U.S. and Ireland as a teacher, professional engineer, manager in multinationals, executive coach and organisational psychologist.  His work has been published in The Moth, Southword, Burning Bush II, Writing4All – the best of 2010, Boyne Berries, The Blue Max…

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Hibernian Writers: Susan Lindsay

Susan Lindsay SUSAN LINDSAY is originally from Dublin but now lives in Galway.  She has read her work at Over the Edge literary events and at Clifden Arts Week and has been a member of the Hibernian Writers group since its founding in 2010. A social work graduate (TCD, 1975), Susan has been a psychotherapist, a group leader, a workshop facilitator and a trainer for over thirty years. Whispering…

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Double Shot @Books Upstairs: Jessica Traynor

An interview with @JessicaTraynor6 ahead of her reading at #DoubleShot @Books Upstairs with @ProfGrahamAllen & Kate Quigley. #books

Double Shot is a new series of poetry readings at the new Books Upstairs premises on D’Olier Street, providing a platform for one emerging and one established poet to share their work.

A new series of poetry readings at the new Books Upstairs premises on Dublin’s D’Olier Street, Double Shot provides a platform for one emerging and one established poet to share their work. Jessica Traynor, one of…

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Double Shot @Books Upstairs: Kate Quigley

An interview with #poet Kate Quigley ahead of her reading at #DoubleShot @Books Upstairs with @JessicaTraynor6 & @ProfGrahamAllen. #books

Double Shot is a new series of poetry readings at the new Books Upstairs premises on D’Olier Street, providing a platform for one emerging and one established poet to share their work.

A new series of poetry readings at the new Books Upstairs premises on Dublin’s D’Olier Street, Double Shot provides a platform for one emerging and one established poet to share their work. Kate Quigley, one of…

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Take me to Odessa: The Revelator Orchestra, Kevin Nolan, Rob Doyle, Cait O'Riordan and Swords play Dublin's Odessa during February

February serves up good #gigs at @odessaclub in #Dublin from @mrpetermurphy @MrKevinNolan @RobDoyle1 @rockyoriordan and @swordsband.

February spoils Dublin based music fans with gigs in Odessa

Dublin based band Swords emerge from writing- hibernation on Feb 12th for a one- off headline show in Odessa for “HomeBeat Presents: The Last Mixed Tape’s 1st Birthday”.

WITH the January blues gradually subsiding and the pockets of the average Irish person a little fuller than was the case during the first half of the month, February is…

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Mnemosyne Lay in Dust: A reading of Austin Clarke's Mnemosyne Lay in Dust at St. Patrick's Hospital, Wed 7th January 2015 @7pm

Want to check out an @firstfortnight #poetry event? Get thee to Mnemosyne Lay in Dust, St. Pat's Hospital, Wed 7th Jan. More here:

First Fortnight: Ireland’s Mental Health Arts Festival

Mnemosyne Lay in Dust A reading of Austin Clarke’s Mnemosyne Lay in Dust at St. Patrick’s Hospital, Wed 7th January 2015 @7pm

First published in 1966, Austin Clarke’s Mnemosyne Lay in Dust is an intensely personal and haunting narrative poem about memory, detailing the fictional Maurice Devane’s “nervous breakdown” and subsequent recovery.…

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TONIGHT: Dave Lordan launches new collection Lost Tribe of the Wicklow Mountains with a little help from Kevin Nolan, Rob Doyle, Sarah Clancy and Karl Parkinson

TONIGHT: Poet Dave Lordan launches Lost Tribe of the Wicklow Mountains, his third collection of poems. The launch takes place upstairs in Toner’s Bar, Baggot Street, Dublin 2.

Get lost: Dave Lordan launches Lost Tribe of The Wicklow Mountains, his third collection of poems, tonight in Toner’s of Baggot Street, Dublin 2.

Dr. Philip Coleman, Director of M.Phil in Literatures of the Americas…

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Interview: Delorentos talk new album Night Becomes Light

Interview: Delorentos talk new album Night Becomes Light. Originally published by Entertainment.ie

Originally published by Entertainment.ie. To read the original, please click here.

Gang of four: Delorentos’ prepare to take album four, Night Becomes Light, on the road.

ALMOST ten years into their career, Delorentos have followed up their Choice prize- winning album Little Sparks with Night Becomes Light, an album that might just be their best yet. Kieran McGuinness and Rónán Yourell sat down…

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Catching Up With...Rhob Cunningham

Check out my #CatchingUpWith interview with @rhobc. Originally published by @entertainmentIE. #newmusic

Ahead of his first gig in Dublin since taking on 20 shows in Berlin over the summer, I interviewed Berlin- based Dublin singer Rhob Cunningham. Rhob spoke to me of his internet ‘win’, how the Dublin and Berlin live scenes weigh up against each other and how he can’t wait to hear Jennifer Evans’ upcoming LP.

Rhob will launch his album ‘The Window & Day’ on Thursday 18th September at The Button…

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Music Interview: Royal Blood's Ben Thatcher

Check out my #interview with @royalblood 's @BenjiTalent. Originally published by @entertainmentIE. #Music #RoyalBlood

Support slots at Arctic Monkeys’ Finsbury Park shows, a barnstorming performance on the John Peel stage at this year’s Glastonbury, the blessing of Led Zeppelin legend Jimmy Page and one of the year’s most anticipated début albums…Royal Blood‘s rapid ascent since forming in 2012 has seen the Brighton based band take in some unforgettable experiences.

On the release of their eponymously titled…