Áine Ní Ghlinn and Thomas McCarthy

Join us for a special reading in memory of our friend and poet Michael Coady, featuring acclaimed writers Áine Ní Ghlinn and Thomas McCarthy.

Áine Ní Ghlinn, Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg from 2020 to 2023, is a celebrated poet and children’s author with 38 published books. Her accolades include a Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship, the Children’s Books Ireland Fiction Honour Award, and three Gradam Reics Carló awards for Irish Language Young People’s Book of the Year. She was also nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2022 and 2023.

Thomas McCarthy, a distinguished poet from Cappoquin, has won the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, and the O’Shaughnessy Prize. A member of Aosdána, McCarthy continues to shape contemporary Irish literature with forthcoming works.