New Poetry

My other books embrace an historic novel in regards to the twelfth century mystic and musician Hildegard of Bingen. The King’s Daughter was reviewed by the Sydney Morning Herald as ‘Here is shock, delight and instruction in skillfully blended concord. Mary O’Connell has brought off the feat of recreating a complete society triumphantly. … This is a delight, and, I’m prepared to wager, in contrast to anything you’ve read before.’ My PhD explored the superb story of the young Irish Australian mystic, Eileen O’Connor ( ).

Mary has read her poetry in quite a few locations through the years, final year on the William Carlton Summer School at Clogher, Co. Tyrone and lately to celebrate one hundred years of the Rathmines Public Library. Denise Blake’s third collection, Invocation was printed by Revival Press, Limerick Writers Centre.

Forgotten Diaspora: Remembering The Pregnant Irish Women Who Fled To America In 19th Century

Her second assortment, Between The Lines, also from Doghouse Books , was featured on RTE Radio 1 Arts Programme, Arena. Argotist on-line recently published ‘Where the Three rivers Meet’ as a free e book. Her poems have been printed in The Dark Horse, The North, Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Threepenny Review, Cyphers, The Stinging Fly, Wasafiri and Best of Irish Poetry 2010. Her first assortment – The Fado House – was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for a First Collection and the Strong/Shine Award .

As a results of lobbying by women’s groups, universal adult suffrage was achieved in 1922, with the institution of the Irish Free State. These same voting rights had been subsequently granted to women in Britain and Northern Ireland in 1928. Studies of Irish nationalism have been primarily historic in scope and overwhelmingly male in content.

Riverdance

She is the co-author of a chapbook, Three-Legged Dog ; her second assortment, The Sea Cabinet, adopted in 2006. Her poetry may also be found in The Wake Forest Irish Poetry Series Vol.1.

Little recognition has been given to the part women have performed, yet over the centuries they’ve undertaken a variety of roles – as combatants, prisoners, writers and politicians. In this necessary and influential collection the full vary of women’s contribution to the Irish nationalist movement is explored by writers whose interests vary from the historical and sociological to the literary and cultural. Karen O’Connor is a winner of Listowel Writers’ Week Single Poem Prize, The Allingham Poetry Award, The Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award for Poetry and the Nora Fahy Literary Awards for Short Story. She is a poet and quick story writer and her work has appeared in many magazines and anthologies. Karen’s first poetry collection, FINGERPRINTS was printed by Doghouse Books in 2005.

Published as Our Lady of Coogee by Crossing Press in 2009, it was described by Professor Alison Bashford, Chair of Australian Studies at Harvard University as ‘a substantive social and interior history – of romance, battle, love, sacrifice and pain. I entertained myself with producing calendars in 2015 and 2016 which were photographic and poetic celebrations of Sydney’s ocean Pools – working with the gifted photographer Mike Gal and designer Helena Brusic. I am also a proud member of the Australian Women’s History Network, the Irish Studies Association of Australia & New Zealand , and the Randwick and Coogee Ladies Swimming Club.

A third collection, Geis, is forthcoming from Bloodaxe and Wake Forest University Press. She has labored as ‘Poet in Residence’ at Wake Forest University and now lives in Lincoln.The Sea Cabinet was shortlisted for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award in 2007. She was given the Golden Pen Award for a number irish girl of her published poetry on Art Arena website. Her poems have been broadly printed in literary magazines and newspapers.

I obtained my doctorate from the University of Edinburgh in 2011 (‘The evolution of Deirdre in the Ulster Cycle’), and have taught since in the Celtic departments of Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Aberdeen. Other than the women writers of the Celtic Revival – in both Ireland and Scotland – my analysis pursuits embrace Scottish Gaelic women’s poetry, and the reception of medieval Irish Ulster Cycle characters in Scotland. I was beforehand Scottish Gaelic analysis assistant for ‘Women’s Poetry in Ireland, Scotland, & Wales, ’ , and have revealed extensively on women’s poetry in Gaelic, and on Deirdre’s depiction in the ninth-century Longes mac n-Uislenn.

She is a broadly printed critic, has written for BBC Radio 4, translated from the Galician of María do Cebreiro, and published some fiction. She was a contributing editor of the Irish poetry journal Metre; she has collaborated with artist Isabel Nolan and in 2008 was named editor of Poetry Ireland Review.

I am currently getting ready a monograph assessing the development of Deirdre from the early medieval period to the Celtic Revival. In 1918, the Representation of the People Act extended suffrage to some women. To vote in parliamentary elections women had be property house owners over the age of 30, or college graduates.

Her earlier collections, Take a Deep Breath and How to Spin Without Getting Dizzy, are printed by Summer Palace Press. Denise is a regular contributor to Sunday Miscellany RTE Radio 1. She has broad expertise of facilitating artistic writing workshops in faculties by way of Poetry Ireland Writers in Schools Scheme, with teachers and artists as part of Artists in Education, CAP Poetry in Motion and with quite a lot of grownup groups. A variety of chapbooks, together with Book of Beyond, Island of Dreams, Zuzus Petals, And God said Let There Be Chocolate, and Americana, are from Krazy Phils Press. Her full-size collections of poetry are The Ruby Slippers ; and Here’s Looking at You Kid .