The Poetry Project

After 36 weeks & 36 poetry-video pairings, we hang our hats (for now at least!) The full catalogue of videos & poems are available on our website.

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Love is a town
you go by on your journey...
poem Colm Breathnach / An Grá

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Baile is ea An Grá
go ngabhann tú thairis ar do thuras...
poem Colm Breathnach / An Grá

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video Fergal McCarthy / An Grá
http://t.co/0n02QudLoO

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I love the abandon
of abandoned things...
poem Michael Coady / Letting Go

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video Anita Groener / Somewhere Else
http://t.co/NV3FqZlOXa

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The clouds of Ireland gathered over France –
Flights of swallows, blowing hot and cold...
poem Harry Clifton / Picardy

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video David Farrell / Picardy
http://t.co/qkOf9VeZFw

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video Stephen Brandes / Rory
http://t.co/Rr1UgLUKhf

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Cork City Hall 1976
A million miles away from you
right at the back of the hall...
poem Louis de Paor / Rory

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Halla na Cathrach, Corcaigh 1976
Milliún míle siar uait
thiar i dtóin an halla...
poem Louis de Paor / Rory

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video John O’Connell / Horsepower
http://t.co/ESKy1TeGSO

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It was the piebald horse in next door’s garden
frightened me out of a dream...
poem Paula Meehan/ MyFather Perceived as a Vision ofStFrancis

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Ulysses / James Joyce
Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.

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For centuries I have been quaking
under the weight of well-shod feet...
poem Francis Harvey / Bogspeak

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video Nigel Rolfe / Into the Mire
http://t.co/I3XyeNQqcy

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J.B.S. Haldane
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

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video Aideen Barry / Beyond the Flock
http://t.co/loidJuO8ls

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Man, for whom I suffered love
In secret, I now call a halt...
poem Máire Mhac an tSaoi / A fhir dar fhulaingeas

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A fhir dar fhulaingeas grá fé rún,
Feasta fógraím an clabhsúr...
poem Máire Mhac an tSaoi / A fhir dar fhulaingeas

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Fog / CARL SANDBURG
The fog comes
on little cat feet.