The School of English and the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust are delighted to present Poetry of the ‘Troubles’ Revisited, a lecture by Frank Ormsby, Ireland Professor of Poetry.The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established by the Arts Council/ An Chomha
In the
Poetry Programme on Sunday 16th May, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Olivia O Leary’s guests are John FitzGerald and Ireland Professor of Poetry Frank Ormsby.
John FitzGerald is University Librarian at University College Cork and started to write poetry around ten years ago, in his late forties. While still unpublished, he won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Prize for 2014. A pamphlet,
First Cut, was published in 2017 by Southword Editions, and he joins Olivia to talk about his first full-length collection,
The Time Being, published by The Gallery Press in June 2021.
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