Finola Cahill

from Mayo, often à Paris. Now in Belfast. Writer. Waterford Poetry Prize 2023, @writersweek Single Poem Award 2024, Cúirt New Writing Prize 2025

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

Still can’t quite believe this happened — delighted to share that I won the Single Poem Award at @WritersWeek
Over the moon 🪇🎉💃🏻✨Thank you so much to @VKennefick for selecting my poem

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@Translink_NI Hi! 7am train to Dublin still hasn’t arrived in grand central. What delay is expected?

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

Honoured to have been selected as one of the recipients this year. ♥️

[IrelandChairOfPoetry @ChairOfPoetry]

The Ireland Chair of Poetry is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Student Award.

The Trust has awarded the following students:

Lexie Ashcroft
Finola Cahill
Anne Marie Dunne
Olivia Heggarty
Noel Howley
Alexandra Karaim

Bios and more here:
https://t.co/f8XUjeWUbH

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@margaritapoet Thank you!

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

🎉💃🏻🎉

[The Poetry Society @PoetrySociety]

(1/5) Congratulations to the National Poetry Competition longlist!

Everyone on the longlist wrote a poem that stood out to the judges, Romalyn Ante, Stephen Sexton and John McAuliffe, out of over 21,000 other works. Well done to all of our longlisted poets!

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@tinybecomings Thanks!

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@JulianD86666247 Thanks, Julian!

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@LeggettBohan You too, Róisín!

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@DaraghFleming Thanks, Daragh!

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@_MartinaDalton Thanks, Martina!

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@VKennefick Merciiiiiii ♥️

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

Having received previous Arts Council funding now disqualifies you from the Agility Award. Obviously resources are limited but it’s hard to support this decision. What is out there to support artists in the massive middle ground between first agility award and a bursary?

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

🥂🍾💃🏻 delighted!

[Martina Dalton @_MartinaDalton]

Thrilled to have a poem highly commended in the @CuirtFestival New Writing Prize 2025 🖋️
Huge congratulations to @Finolala and to all the winners! 💫✨
Enormous gratitude to @VKennefick for her kind words about my poem 🙏
https://t.co/eKw3UizE71

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[Roxy @RoxyTall]

put him in a pool and delete the ladder

[Susan L. Leary @susanlleary]

“It’s dusk. Your daughter’s tall.”

Thomas Lux 💙

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@lucy_holme @UnitedAgents Ahh! Congrats 🥂

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@JulianD86666247 Thank you, Julian!

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

Delighted to be reading at this. It’s a free event so bop along for poems and vino

[Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland]

🎉 Join us for the launch of Poetry Ireland Review Issue 144, edited by Jessica Traynor.

📅 Tues 21 Jan, 6:30pm
📍 58 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
📩 RSVP Here: https://t.co/jThXco87Yj

Readings by Kimberly Campanello, Róisín Kelly, Harry Clifton, Nicole Morris, Dolores Stewart.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

— Franz Kafka, 1912

[Finola Cahill @Finolala]

@NiamhMacCabe Thank you, Niamh ♥️