Irish poet. New book: The Meek, @WFUPress 2025. Adjunct Prof TCD School of Medicine. Editor of Vital Signs: Poems of Illness & Healing.
Dublin, Ireland
Joined March 2021
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A short essay on poetry and medicine, and on the privilege of gathering great poems on a fascinating and far-reaching subject for the beautifully produced Poetry Ireland anthology Vital Signs: Poems of Illness and Healing. @poetryireland @TrinityMed1
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Tickets here for At the Threshold, a Saint Brigid's Day music and poetry celebration, at 3pm on Sunday Feb 1st in Ashford Community and Heritage Centre, with myself and the poet Jane Clarke, Eamon Sweeney (guitar and lute), and Izumi Kimura (piano). eventbrite.com/e/at-the-thre…
The Poetry and the Duty of Care event tonight at Dublin Book Festival is sold out. And though you can't be there to hear myself and the poets Lianne O'Hara, Jennifer Horgan, and Róisín Leggett Bohan, you can and should buy their wonderful new books. dublinbookfestival.com/event…
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Today’s book mail: HEART, BE AT PEACE by Donal Ryan and THE MEEK by Martin Dyar. Two amazing Irish writers! Sometimes, I miss the Emerald Isle so much it’s hard to breathe 🇮🇪
#reader #readingcommunity #readingrecommendations #irishwriters #donalryan #martindyar #fiction #poetry
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Poem of the Week: Luck
A new work by Martin Dyar irishtimes.com/culture/books…
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Conor Walsh: Selected Piano Works review – Quietly persuasive, impressively original film of the late Mayo musician – The Irish Times irishtimes.com/culture/film/…
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Conor Walsh: Selected Piano Works comes to the big screen at The Eye Cinema🎹
It’s all happening next Thursday, August 14th🎶🎼 His music is the soundtrack to his life🤩
Get all the details right here…. thisisgalway.ie/event/conor-…
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#ReelArt funded film 'Conor Walsh: Selected Piano Works' by @TwopairFilms, launches @LightHouseD7 this Fri 8 Aug.
Director Keith Walsh celebrates the work Conor left behind when he died tragically as his music was beginning to flow out into the world.
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ALT Promotional poster for the documentary 'Conor Walsh: Selected Piano Works' by TwoPair Films. Features a black and white close-up image of Conor Walsh, his face partially obscured. The title of the film appears in red text with festival laurels and funding logos at the bottom.
I will be discussing my new book The Meek tonight with Sean Rocks on Arena on Radio One after 7pm. Poems in tribute to the composer Conor Walsh, the great Traveller singer John Reilly, and a host of talking animals are on the menu. rte.ie/radio/radio1/arena/
A number of first edition signed copies of The Meek are currently available in Hodges Figgis in Dublin. Thanks to Jane Clarke who spoke so generously and insightfully at last night's launch, and the wise powerhouse Eithne Hand whose new book Tickle is full of verbal gold.
For May Day and beyond, and for all babies. 'The May Baby', a liberal version of an old song collected by Henry Morris in Monaghan (Recorded by The Gloaming as 'Samhradh Samhradh') Glossed by Mary Outland on the mighty Wake Forest University Press website wfupress.wfu.edu/poem-of-the…
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Today, with @faberbooks, we are proud to announce The Poems of Seamus Heaney, edited by Bernard O'Donoghue & Rosie Lavan with Matthew Hollis. This landmark volume will celebrate SH's life in poetry, including his 12 original collections, and uncollected poems. Out 9th October
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My single ‘Chasing the Hare’ is out now! It’s inspired by the myth of hares being shapeshifters, taking on the form of a woman. 🐇🌙✨
My album ‘Shapeshifter’ is out on February 12th - available for pre-order now.
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The skylark episode of Anja Murray and Brían Mac Gloinn's superb IMRO award-winning Lyric Feature series, Feather and Flock, will have it's first airing this Sunday at 6pm on Lyric FM. I write here about the honour of being their poetry person. @MiseAnja
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"Crab-Apples" by Imtiaz Dharker as seen in Vital Signs, Poems of Illness and Healing, Edited by Martin Dyar.
All publications by Poetry Ireland available from poetryireland.ie/publication…
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An exploration of the links between medicine, ecology and poetry tonight at the Cupán Ceoil, including poetic tributes to the musicians Conor Walsh and Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. In the company of Terry McDonagh, and the fabled Ox Mountain poets. All welcome. ballinafringefestival.ie/mon…
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Thrilled to receive a 🏆GOLD 🏆award from #IMRO24 for Feather and Flock!
Dream team @brianmacgloinn & I with amazing support from Eoin O’Kelly @LyricFeature at @RTElyricfm
Thanks to all the brilliant contributors, musical & interviewees,
and to @CNaM_ie for funding
Congratulations to this year’s #IMRO24 Specialist Speech Programme winner!
Gold: Feather and Flock (Lyric Feature) / RTÉ Lyric FM
Culture Night in Mayo: a feast of new poems exploring Ballina Town & the riches of the Jackie Clarke Collection, followed by music & dancing till late in the courtyard of the @jccballina itself. Beautiful designs by @richbname & great support from @MayoArtsOffice. All welcome.
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On 29 May, President Higgins was presented with the John B. Keane Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of 'Service to the Arts in Ireland' at Listowel @WritersWeek. You can read the citation, delivered by Professor Donncha O'Connell @DonnchaLaw, at universityofgalway.ie/busine…
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Sunday @WritersWeek In conversation with @martindyar, Festival Curator and Tom Shortt, Arts & Education Officer, Irish Prison Service to discuss my memoir and the power of prison education. @IrishPrisons @SpeireNua @ShaunaGilligan1 @Gill_Books @OMahonysBooks
