Tagged: “Dublin”
“A Deep Ocean One Can Plunge Into”: An Interview with Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s newest book The Mother House was published in the US this April, and it has been gaining praise across the board, including being chosen for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Despite finishing out the semester at home, WFU Press intern Emelyn Hatch conducted an interview with the poet via email to dig deeper into this shining collection.
Continue ReadingAmerican Students in Ireland: Perspectives from WFU Press
Two of our new WFU Press interns recently returned from a seven week internship program in Dublin, Ireland. Below, they recount their unique experiences and reflections from their time abroad. Alex Price: The day I arrived, I went tired, a bit smelly if we are being honest, and with the look of the lost to Trinity…
Continue ReadingBook of the Month: Paula Meehan’s “Painting Rain”
For November, the book of the month is Painting Rain, the 2009 collection of poetry from Paula Meehan. Painting Rain is full of sadness, and death, and memory; images of the present are wrapped up with the past. This is a book about how things change, will always change, will never remain the same. In…
Continue ReadingIt Runs In the Family
It’s rare enough to have one famous artist in the family, rarer still to have two. The parents of Thomas and John Kinsella – lauded Irish poet and composer, respectively – must have been doing something right. The Kinsella boys, who grew up in the Dublin suburb of Inchicore to a family employed in the…
Continue ReadingU2: Brendan Kennelly’s Number One Fans
Like many Irish people, the poet Brendan Kennelly is a fan of the band U2. However, Kennelly has a leg up on his fellow U2 fans: the band is a fan of him. Kennelly is often called “the people’s poet” for his open, accessible style, (Dublin’s Sunday Tribune). Kennelly’s epic poem, The Book of Judas,…
Continue ReadingPaula Meehan: Rebel with a Cause
Paula Meehan, born in Dublin in 1955, spent much of her childhood in England before finishing her primary school education at Dublin’s Central Model Girls’ School in Gardiner Street. She began her secondary school education at St. Michael’s Holy Faith Covent in Finglas, but her time there was short lived. Meehan was expelled from the…
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