Spoken Word and Traditional Irish Music Event

Sarah Clancy

Sarah Clancy is a poet and community worker from Galway, Ireland. She holds an MA in public advocacy and activism, as well as diplomas in European human rights law and community development practice. She has published three collections of poetry: Stacey and the Mechanical Bull (Lapwing Press, 2011), Thanks for Nothing, Hippies (Salmon Poetry, 2012), and The Truth and Other Stories (Salmon Poetry, 2014). With fellow Galway poet Elaine Feeney, she released Cinderella Backwards, a poetry CD, in 2013. She has placed or been shortlisted in several of Ireland’s preeminent written poetry competitions, including the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize, the Patrick Kavanagh Award, and the Listowel Collection of Poetry Competition. In 2015, she was named the Bogman's Cannon People's Poet, and in 2016, she was the Lingo Festival's Poet Laureate. She won the Irish People’s Poetry Prize for her poem “And Yet We Must Live in These Times” and has received an individual artist's bursary from Galway City Council.

Eoin Devereux

A Professor of Cultural Sociology, Devereux’s poetry has been published by The Irish Times, broadcast on RTE’s Poetry Programme and featured on Poetry Ireland’s Words Lightly Spoken Podcast.  His poem ‘The Bodhi Tree’ was short-listed for a Hennessy Award in 2018.  Eoin teaches the course Creative Writers in the Community on the MA in Creative Writing at UL. He writes and performs a monthly radio show called The Cedarwood Chronicles with Gavin Friday on the U2 radio station U2X Radio on the Sirius Platform in the USA & Canada. He curated the Limerick Poetry Broadsheet "April Is The Cruellest Month" in 2022 which featured work by Martin Dyar, Emily Cullen, Kerrie O'Brien, Willzee and Denise Chaila amongst others. 

FELISPEAKS

FELISPEAKS is a Nigerian-Irish Poet, Performer, Playwright from Co. Longford, based in Maynooth town. She is currently featured on the Leaving Certificate English Curriculum with her poem “For Our Mothers” for examination year 2023. FELISPEAKS was commissioned by RTE in 2020 with the poem “Still” about Ireland’s response to the COVID pandemic. In recent events, FELISPEAKS has performed at National Concert Hall: Notes from A Quiet Land as well as various online livestreamed events and symposiums including Createfest, Maynooth University Social Justice Week, Irish Arts Centre New York Halloween Event, NUIG’s Translating the Neighbourhood, Beatfreeks Poetry Jam, Spotlight: Éire to the World, Firegilders with Poetry Ireland, Concern online events, and POD’s Festival of Now. She was a member of Dublin International Film Festival’s Festival Retrospective Committee, curating works. She has been a board member of Poetry Ireland since June 2020. Felicia has been nominated ‘Best Performer’ by Dublin Fringe Festival Sep. 2018 judged for her performance in ‘BOYCHILD’, a co-written play by Dagogo Hart and herself. Felicia has also been honoured with an award by the (APNI) African Professional Network of Ireland for her unique contribution to the art scene in Dublin City, December 2017.

Dubhán Ó Longáin

Dubhán Ó Longáin is a poet, writer, researcher, and Irish teacher. From Donegal originally, he teaches at the University of Limerick and is working towards a PhD at Ulster University. His PhD research focuses on the stories of Fionn mac Cumhaill and the Fianna and he likes to reimagine and give a modern twist to older tales in his creative writing.

He has won prizes for both ‘traditional’ and ‘slam’ poetry and his first collection, IDEO Locator, was published by Coiscéim.

File, scríbhneoir, taighdeoir, agus teagascóir Gaeilge é Dubhán Ó Longáin. Conallach é atá ag teagasc in Ollscoil Luimnigh agus a bhfuil PhD idir lámha aige in Ollscoil Uladh. An Fhiannaíocht is ábhar dá thaighde dochtúireachta agus is maith leis seanscéaltaí a athmhúnlú agus cor nua-aoiseach a chur iontu ina chuid scríbhneoireachta cruthaithí.

Tá duaiseanna bainte amach aige mar gheall ar a dhánta ‘traidisiúnta’ agus ‘slam’ araon agus a chéad chnuasach, IDEO Locator, foilsithe ag Coiscéim.