Saturday 11th October, 2025 – Nenagh Tourist Office – 10am – 1pm Geraldine Mitchell will lead a workshop exploring how we may find the courage to write hopefully in these dark times. Taking inspiration and imagery from close observation of the natural world, combined with some inspirational poems by poets of diverse cultural backgrounds, she…
Sunday 7th September – Friday 3rd October, 2025 – Olivier Cornet Gallery Stunning new work by Eoin MacLochlainn – highly evocative watercolours on wood depicting old fence posts, in a gallery run by Olivier Cornet who always has strong, subtly engaged work for us to see. Independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly opened the show.
Monday 28th July – Friday 1st August, 2025 – Keel, Achill Island, Co Mayo Stepping into the shoes of the late Macdara Woods and Kerry poet Paddy Bushe who delivered these daily 4-hour workshops for years. A great week of writing, discussion and fun.
Friday July 25th, 2025 @ 7pm There’s a very nice review of Naming Love by Ciarán O’Rourke in this new issue of Skylight 47. I look forward to meeting other featured poets online.
June 27th to July 19th, 2025 – Taylor Galleries, Kildare Street, Dublin
Opening Thursday June 26th, 2025 It’s a huge honour that Eamonn Maxwell, curator of this exhibition, has chosen a line from one of my poems for the show which runs until July 19th
OnSight 2024/25 – Museum of Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar
Opened Thursday May 1st, 2025 : Poetry Day Explore objects from the Irish Folklife Collection at the Museum of Country Life in Castlebar, through the poetry of Martina Evans, Sean Borodale and myself. Silent Objects / Spoken Lives
Saturday May 3rd, 2025 – St Thomas’ Church, Dugort
You can watch the full evening’s event combining traditional music with a choice of Paul Durcan’s poems, selected and read by Michael O’Loughlin, Dermot Bolger, Sheila McHugh and myself. Paul Durcan – 80 at 80 | Youtube
Delighted to have been invited by Ciaran O´Rourke to write this essay for his excellent Ragpicker website. In it I look at writer´s block in these times of war and worse, find inspiration in a late aunt´s life and take a look at the existential danger AI holds for human langauge. A call to arms…
