Events and Tickets
- This event has passed.
Cathy Galvin and Simon Ó Faolain
September 22 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
€10
Poet, editor and journalist Cathy Galvin lives in Cornwall and has roots in Connemara. Her collection, Ethnology, A Love Song for Connemara, was published by Bloodaxe Books in Ireland and the UK this year described as ‘groundbreaking’ in the Irish Times. She is founder of the short story organisation, Word Factory, and the Sunday Times Short Story Award. She has been a senior editor for Newsweek and the Sunday Times.
Simon Ó Faoláin has published four collections of poetry in Irish, including Anam Mhadra (2018), his debut which won both the Glen Dimplex and Strong Prizes, and his latest Iasachtaigh (2022). He has also written three books of literary translation, the latest being Meidéa le Eoiripidéas (2024), a translation of Euripides Classical Greek tragedy, which was shortlisted for the De Bhaldraithe Prize. Other prizes his work has won are the Walter Macken Prize, the Colmcille Prize (twice) and the Foras na Gaeilge Prize (four times).