STROKESTOWN POETRY ANTHOLOGY 2017 – Click Here to purchase Edited by Paddy Bush €12.00 (incl post & packaging) Contributors include: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin (Ireland Professor of Poetry), Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Moya Cannon, Maura Dooley, Rody Gorman, Celia deFréine, Vincent Woods, James Harpur and many more… Further news – Competitions for 2018 will be launched Read more about Strokestown Poetry Anthology 2017[…]
Congratulations to Jim Callery, owner of Strokestown Park House, (home to our festival) and friend of our festival, who won the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/Europa Nostra Award 2017. He received the award on the 15th of May 2017. He was also honoured with a Civic Award, Honorary Freedom of Administrative Area of County Read more about Congratulations Jim Callery[…]
Results 2017 Roscommon Schools’ Poetry Prize Percy French Prize for Witty Verse Mike Greenhough, Cardiff, Wales ‘Kneeology’ Duais de hÍde Rody Gorman, Isle of Skye, Scotland ‘Lorg Shuibhne’ The Strokestown International Prize Patrick Maddock, New Ross, Wexford, Ireland Read more about Competition Results 2017[…]
Sunday Miscellany’s public events have been hugely popular among the programme’s listeners over the past few years, allowing audiences to see and hear the programme recorded, up close. The programme’s first outside broadcast of 2017 takes place this May Bank Holiday at the Strokestown International Poetry Festival in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, gathering some of Ireland’s foremost Read more about Sunday Miscellany at Strokestown – 1st May[…]
Street Poems, Strokestown, April 2017 One week to go! A quick update on the highlights of Strokestown Poetry Festival 2017: – James Harpur – poet and winner of The Vincent Buckley Poetry Prize 2016, will give a talk and workshop over the week end. Sarah Clancy – page and performance poet from Galway will perform Read more about One week to go!![…]
Both 1st and 2nd Prize winners of the Poetry Ireland and Butlers poetry competition will be reading at Strokestown. Jessamine O’Connor will be reading on Friday 28th Of April at 8pm, and Geraldine Mitchell will be reading at 3.30 on Sunday 30th April. http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/sensual-poem-by-roscommon-woman-wins-poetry-day-ireland-and-butlers-poetry-competition-35632563.html
Street poems have been placed around Strokestown in advance of the festival which is only 10 days away. Eugene Murphy TD reading ‘Welcome, the Island speaks to refugees’ by Jessamine O’Connor
Duais de hÍde Urraithe ag Conradh na Gaeilge • Gearrliosta • Celia de Fréine (Iarfhocal); Rody Gorman (Lorg Shuibhne); Ceaití Ní Bheildiúin (D’Ionú Tagtha); Bríd Ní Mhóráin (Uaisle an tSléibhe); Seosamh Ó Murchú (Ruathar Anama); Mícheál Ó Ruairc (Guth). Beidh léamhanna dá gcuid féin ag na filí ar an ngearrliosta, fite fuaite le léamhanna eile Read more about Duais de hÍde – 29 Aibreán[…]
Congratulations to Jessamine O’Connor (our Roscommon Judge) who won The Poetry Day Ireland and Butlers Chocolate Poetry Competition 2017 with her poem ‘Meet me for Coffee‘. Poetry Ireland and Butlers Chocolate Cafés invited poets to submit poems for the Poetry Day Ireland 2017 competition. The theme of the competition was open, but poems had to mention either chocolate or Read more about Congratulations Jessamine[…]