Is ar Léann Feimineach agus Inscne na Gaeilge a bheidh Léachtaí Cholm Cille ag díriú i mbliana agus is mór an onóir dom roinnt dánta ón gcnuasach nua a léamh ann. Dé hAoine 9ú Meán Fómhair agus Dé Sathairn 10ú Meán Fómhair i bhFoirgneamh an Iontais, Ollscoil Mhá Nuad a thiocfar le chéile. Is féidir teacht ar a thuilleadh eolais anseo.
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‘Imeacht an ama ar oileán mara’ an téama a bhí ag Cosán Ghabhla, imeacht de chuid de Fhéile an Earagail a d’eagraigh Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde. Ba rídheas a bheith páirteach agus am a chaitheamh i dteannta na n-ealaíontóirí Kim Sharkey, Úna Ní Shé agus Sandra Kennedy, agus na scríbhneoirí Rody Gorman is Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde, gan trácht ar an mbean ildánach de bhunadh Ghabhla, Máirín Uí Fhearraigh. Tá pictiúirí a ghlac Linda thíos:
Cúpla rud ag teacht aníos an mhí seo chugainn:
The film City of a Thousand Suns/ Cathair na Mílte Grian will be premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh on the 8th July at 14.00. Written and directed by Paula Kehoe and Feargal Ward, this is an unforgettable art film partly inspired by Eoghan Ó Tuairisc’s elegy for Hiroshima, ‘Aifreann na Marbh’. The cast includes Marcus Mac Conghail, Kazuyoshi Meiki, Rióna Ní Fhrighil and Tristan Warner. I was very happy to narrate the Irish-language version of the film.
Beidh mé ag glacadh páirte in ‘Cosán Ghabhla‘ mar chuid d’Fhéile an Earagail ar an 9ú agus 10ú Iúil i dteannta scríbhneoirí agus físealaíontóirí.
On the 16th July, I’ll be reading in Panicale in Umbria, Italy at the Effetto48 festival with Billy Ramsell and Lorenzo Mari. Special thanks to Alberto Masala for the invitation.
Delighted to be finishing off the month in Armagh at the John Hewitt Summer School where I’ll be reading with John McAuliffe and Molly Twomey on 29th July at 11.15.
Míle buíochas to Eithne Hand for the invitation to contribute to Poetry File on RTÉ Lyric FM. Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan feature in the photo above and in the poem. You can listen back to it here.
It was an absolute pleasure to speak to Olivia O’Leary recently on RTÉ Raidio 1 about the bilingual anthology Cnámh agus Smior/ Bone and Marrow. You can listen back to the conversation here. My thanks to Olivia and to the producer, Claire Cunningham at Rockfinch Productions.
Last week, I spoke to Helen Ní Shé on An Saol Ó Dheas about the anthology on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. I read one of my own poems, ‘Manach Eile agus a Chat’ which is the last poem in Cnámh agus Smior/ Bone and Marrow.
Really looking forward to the event above at Cork City Library. There’s a wonderful programme of events for this year’s Cork World Book Fest – you can see them all here. It’s great to have the festival back!
‘Fothragadh’ was the featured poem on Poetry File on Evelyn Grant’s Weekend Drive on RTÉ Lyric FM on the 12th of March. Many thanks to the producer Eithne Hand. You can listen back to the segment here. Thanks, too, to Billy Ramsell for the translation.
Great to receive a copy of this anthology during the week, edited by Federico Italiano and Jan Wagner, containing German translations of my work, alongside many, many poets whom I greatly admire. Among the Irish contingent are Ailbhe Darcy, Alan Gillis, Victoria Kennefick, Nick Laird, John McAuliffe, Sinéad Morrissey, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Leanne O’Sullivan, Justin Quinn and David Wheatley. This book is divided into various ‘itineraries’, taking in Poland, Wales, Macedonia, Iceland Moldova, Portugal and Finland; another begins in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Cyprus, Norway and Belarus; the third journey takes us from England to Israel, Denmark, Austria, Croatia, Luxembourg and Russia; the fourth leg includes poets from Chechnya, Bulgaria, Scotland, Georgia, Italy, Kosovo and Latvia; the fifth itinerary takes in Belgium, Malta, Lithuania, Andorra, Hungary, Turkey and Serbia; the sixth trip begins in Switzerland before taking us to Romania, Albania, Slovakia, Spain, Montenegro and Estonia; the seventh and final trek take us from Ukraine to Germany, Armenia, Greenland, Sweden, Northern Ireland and Slovenia. These are poignant -and vital – poetic journeys, given what the scenes that are emerging from Ukraine in recent days and weeks…
Many thanks to the editors and to Hans-Christian Oeser who translated my poems to German, and to the publisher Carl Hanser Verlag.
Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh 
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