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Gallery Press Goes to Clifden
September 20, 2024 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
€10
with John FitzGerald and Alvy Carragher
John FitzGerald, born in Cork in 1962, has lived in Dublin, London, and Florence. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2014, and his first collection, The Time Being (2021), was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize. The Gallery Press published his translation of The Lament for Art O’Leary in 2022. He served as University Librarian at University College Cork until 2022 and is now an Adjunct Professor in the School of English. John lives in Carrigdarrery, County Cork. His second collection, Long Distance, was published in 2024.
Alvy Carragher grew up by the River Shannon in Galway and Tipperary, and has lived in Louisiana, Dublin, South Korea, and Canada before returning to Ireland. Her collections, Falling in Love with Broken Things (2016) and The Men I Keep Under My Bed (2021), were published by Salmon Poetry. She holds an MA in Writing from NUIG and received an Arts Council Literary Bursary. Her latest collection, What Remains the Same, was published in 2024. Both poets bring a deep emotional resonance and cultural richness to their work, making significant contributions to contemporary Irish poetry.
In memory of Michael Coady and Gerald Dawe.
Sponsored by: Truly and Bobby Gilmore