Book Tickets
| Date: Tue 7 Jul 2020 |
| Time: 6.00pm |
We will host a workshop on Zoom Tuesday the 7th July at 6:00pm looking at mothertogues in a bilingual context with renowned poets Ifor ap Glyn, Ciara Ní É and Pàdraig MacAoidh. Poets will present new works at a later stage based on these conversations looking at language and nationhood. Send an email to bronagh@culturlann.ie to register.
Ifor ap Glyn
Ifor ap Glyn is an award-winning broadcaster and poet. He was born in London to Welsh parents but now lives in Caernarfon.
He became the 4th National Poet of Wales in 2016. His role is to respond to events of national significance and to appear at events and festivals worldwide to raise the profile of writing and writers from Whales.He has twice won the Crown for poetry at the National Eisteddfod.
In 1996, he co-founded Cwmni Da, an independent television company, and has worked as a director, producer and presenter. He has won BAFTA Cymru Awards for his work on Lleisiau’r Rhyfel Mawr, a series about the First World War and Popeth yn Gymraeg, about the use of the Welsh language. Cwmni Da now has over 50 employees and is owned and controlled by the workforce.
Ciara Ní É
Ciara Ní É is the DCU Writer in Residence 2020. She established the open mic night REIC where the spoken word, rap, music, stories and more can all be heard. She has performed her poetry in New York, London, and Brussels, Sweden and at home here in Ireland. In 2019 Ciara became the ambassador for the Irish Writers Centre. Her work and literature has been published in various publications including Icarus and Comhar. She is currently working on her first collection of poems. She was selected for Poetry Ireland’s “Introductions” scheme in 2017 and in the following year, she released a series of video poems in conjunction with Irish Writers Centre, all of which are available on YouTube. The video for the poem “Phenomenal Woman” about the LGFA received over 300,000 views and drew widespread attention to her work. Included in her commissioned work are RTÉ TV, BBC Radio, TG4 and The Irish Writers Society.
Pàdraig MacAoidh
Peter Mackay is from the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. His first collection of poems, Galore, was published by Acair in 2015 and was on the shortlist for the Saltire and Donald Meek Prizes; his second collection, Some Kind Of, has just been published. His work has been widely published in journals, magazines and online and on the radio, and translated into German, French, Irish, Czech, Slovakian and English. He works as a lecturer at the University of St Andrews (after spells working at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, Trinity College Dublin and as a broadcast journalist and producer for the BBC); he lives in Edinburgh.
