10 April,
Free Event / Irish Language / Poetry /
Arts in Action: Poetry Reading with Áine Ní Ghlinn and Moya Roddy
Thursday, 10 April 2025, 1:00pm
Bank of Ireland Theatre, O’Donoghue Centre, University of Galway / Free - Book Tickets
Book NowJoin award-winning poet and author Áine Ní Ghlinn for a special reading from her collected poems, with English translations by Theo Dorgan. A recipient of multiple Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary prizes and the Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship, she writes with lyrical intensity on themes of identity and resilience. A former Laureate na nÓg (2020–2023), she is a vital voice in contemporary Irish-language literature.
Buail isteach chuig léamh speisialta leis an bhfile agus scríbhneoir Áine Ní Ghlinn agus í ag léamh rogha dánta óna saothar filíochta le haistriúcháin Bhéarla le Theo Dorgan. Is iar-Laureate na nÓg í (2020–2023) í agus an chéad scríbhneoir sa ról a scríobhann i nGaeilge amháin. Is iomaí gradam atá gnóthaithe aici, ina measc Duaiseanna Liteartha Oireachtas na Gaeilge agus an Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship. Scríobhann sí le neart is le brí ar ábhair a bhaineann le féiniúlacht agus le teacht aniar. Is glór bríomhar í i litríocht chomhaimseartha na Gaeilge.
Moya Roddy has published poetry, novels and short stories and writes for film and television. Now with The Dark Art of Darning, her second poetry collection, she continues exploring themes of family life and the intricate layers of nostalgia and loss.
In association with Arts in Action
Áine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and was Ireland’s Laureate na nÓg/ Children’s Literature Laureate 2020-2023.
She has had 39 books published by various publishers. These include young adult fiction, stories, novels and picture books for young readers as well as various collections of poetry (for adults and children).
She has won a range of awards, including a Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Fellowship, several Listowerl Writers Week and Strokestown Festival poetry awards, various Oireachtas awards, Children’s Books Ireland fiction honour award, the Literacy Association of Ireland Book of the Year and she’s a four-time winner of Gradam Reics Carló Irish Language Children’s Book of the Year.
Moya Roddy is the author of two novels, two collections of short stories and two collections of poetry. Her novel The Long Way Home was described as ‘Simply brilliant’ in the Irish Times; the Sunday Independent said of her collection Fire in my Head ‘she’d given a voice to the truly voiceless’. Her debut poetry collection Out of the Ordinary was short-listed for the Strong-Shine Award, Jessica Traynor described it as “… a book of minute observations, of stolen glimpses and sudden seismic epiphanies.” Rita Ann Higgins called her latest collection The Dark Art of Darning ‘“enthralling … entangled …daring … be awake, be wide awake reading these apparently easy-going poems”. Moya also writes for film, TV and radio.
