Women poets and allies working to bring the voices of forgotten Irish women poets back into the canon and fight gender imbalance #HedgeSchool#FiredIrishPoets
It's almost to the year since Fired! has its inaugural event in Belfast. This year we're even more FiredUp! Free event & all welcome. Readings by @DonaldsonMoyra @maria_mcmanus @PoetrySiobhan @alexpryce100 @BoyleMo @CelizMurray & many more. #HedgeSchool#Irishwomenpoets
We couldn't be more delighted to announce the publication of the full and vastly expanded biography of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington. 500 pages of indepth research complimented with an array of new images. Due for release next week. Order now on our website and in all good bookshops
Head over to @UCDLibrary this #PoetryDayIRL for a celebration of the @FiredIrishPoets movement. Call in to the Writing Centre from 1-2pm to enjoy poems by Irish women. Bring along a fave poem by a woman to read, or just drop in and discover a new one! https://t.co/NRTaKGkgLZ
"I think there are conversations to be had. Conversations about the past, the future and kindness." Performance poet Elizabeth McGeown shares her thoughts on #InternationalWomensDay.
https://t.co/j44mcGLesT
Some great work by @CelizMurray who is curating an archive of 'Fired! Irish Women Poets' on the disregarded women of Irish Poetry in research and collections. A very important resource; https://t.co/l0mmWu5n4M