Please read my opinion piece on the Catastrophic canonical neglect of Irish women poets and writers: is an emerging poet. Geraldine is a regular reader at the Purely Poetry open mic nights in Belfast. She has worked as Poet in Residence with Limerick Co Council Arts Office and is on the organizing committee for Éigse Michael Hartnett Literary & Arts Festival. Her poetry has appeared in various publications, including New Irish Writing in the The Irish Times, Southword, Crannóg, The Stony Thursday Book and Eyewear Publishing’s The Best New British and Irish Poets 2016. by Patricia Coughlan and Tina O’Toole. Ailbhe Darcy was born in Dublin in 1981 and grew up there. Her first collection, In a Hare’s Eye, was published by Doire Press in 2015. She is a member of Aosdána. She is working on her first novel and on a collection of poetry. Her poems have been included in various publications such as The North, Skylight 47, The Ogham Stone, The Lea-Green Down Anthology and Boyne Berries. Her poetry has been published in, or is forthcoming from Banshee, Poetry International — Ireland, The Stinging Fly, Mslexia, The Pickled Body, Burning Bush 2, Abridged, Revival, Necessary Fiction, Poetry Salzburg, Foma & Fontanelles, and Cork Literary Review, and anthologised in Dedalus’s collection of immigrant poetry in Ireland, Landing Places (2010). She attended the Seamus Heaney Centre summer school at Queens University Belfast in 2013. She holds a BA(hons) in English Literature and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin. In 1978-9 she studied at the University of Copenhagen, and in 1982 was awarded a PhD from the National University of Ireland (NUI). Born in Belfast she moves between Binalong in rural NSW and nearby Canberra ACT. She holds a business qualification and she has a passion for reading, writing and reciting poetry. Gráinne Tobin grew up in Armagh and lives in Newcastle, Co Down with her husband. She lives between Oxford and Dublin. In spite of increasing isolation, depression and derangement, she wrote plays, novels and other works, none of which can be accounted for. Her poems have been published by or are forthcoming in: A New Ulster, Poetry Breakfast, The Galway Review, The Incubator, The Honest Ulsterman, Headstuff, The Irish Literary Times, Poetry NI P.O.E.T Anthology, The Literateur, Lakeview International Journal of Arts and Literature, Four x Four, Ink Sweat and Tears, Forage, Shot Glass Journal, Orbis, Picaroon and Poetry Pacific among others. The collection assembles work originally published between 1778 and 1838. The recent publication of the Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets, edited by Professor Gerald Dawe of Trinity College Dublin, has reignited decades-long debates about Irish writers who are women and their exclusion from the literary canon. Robert Peston was wrong on Northern Ireland, but was he also right? Her poem ” Mass”, is both gloriously funny, bitter-sweet in the astuteness of its observations and a brilliant, sly window into the Irish female Catholic experience. Todtnauberg: In Heidegger's Germany there is no room for Paul Celan. Eleanor holds an MPhil (Distinction) in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in Cultural History (Hons) University of Northumbria, a BA (Hons 1st), Open University. Her grimoire, The Geometry of Love between the Elements, was published by Poetry Bus Press. She is working towards her first collection of poetry as well as a feminist non-fiction book for teenage girls titled Welcome to the Desert of the Real. Jess Mc Kinney is a queer feminist poet, essayist and English Studies graduate of UCD. Working poets soon figured out that if they attached themselves to … One of her poems ‘A Celtic Legacy’ was performed in France at Theatre des Marronniers, Lyon, the village of Saint Pierre de Chartreuse and 59 Rivoli, Paris by Irish actor and musician Davog Rynne. After her return to Ireland in 1979, she continued painting but also began writing poetry. She has been attending poetry workshops with Kevin Higgins at the Galway Art Centre since September 2013 and has read at open mike of the Over The Edge Series at Galway City Library. In her short(ish) life, she has overcome progressive pain diseases, has met ex-prisoners of death row, interviewed Ted X speakers and gained a Masters in Philosophy of the Arts. Emma’s thesis reveals how this view has permeated the critical landscape of women’s poetry, facilitating an absurd privation of the history of poetry by women in Ireland and simplifying it in the process. Her first collection, In Other Words, appeared with Salmon Poetry in 2010; her second collection, Demeter Does Not Remember also with Salmon Poetry at the end of 2014. Catherine Conlon lives in Celbridge, Co. Kildare. Over the course of her long career, Eavan Boland has emerged as one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. She has received four awards from the Arts Council NI, most recently, the Artist Career Enhancement Award…, Medbh McGuckian’s first published poems appeared in two pamphlets, All The Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems and Portrait of Joanna, in 1980, the year in which she received an Eric Gregory Award. She has worked in the theatre industry as a costume designer and events coordinator, and lectures on sustainability. Shirley lived in Bray, Co. Wicklow. She is currently studying the MA in Digital Arts and Humanities at UCC. The widow of Rathlin Island’s famous campaigner, diver, author (Harsh winds of Rathlin) Thomas Cecil. Leave a reply. Moya Cannon was born in 1956 in Dunfanaghy, County Donegal. Lindsey Bellosa lives in Syracuse, NY.  She has an MA in Writing from the National University of Ireland, Galway and has poems published in both Irish and American journals: most recently The Comstock Review, The Galway Review, IthacaLit, Crannog, Emerge Literary Journal and The Cortland Review.  Her first chapbook, The Hunger, was published with Willet Press in 2014. Fiona Sampson, The Irish Times. In their work we find the emergence of a distinct female voice in Gaelic poetry. Adult fiction: Crúba na Cinniúna (2009); Uisce faoi Thalamh (2011); Éalú (2013). Her latest work is part of The Moth Collection, Little Editions. Her next collection Tongulish was published in April 2016 by Bloodaxe. She was long-listed for the Fish Poetry Prize in 2015. Fired! (Source: Wiki), Ceathrúintí Mháire Ní Ógáin’ and ‘A fhir dar fhulaingeas’ by Máire Mhac an tSaoi. In the US before moving to Ireland she won some awards for her work and published in a number of student publications, including the New College Catalyst and later the Columbia Owl, as well as in the book Venceremos Brigade [Simon & Shuster.] Her poetry has been published in, and received a special commendation in the, rom Donegal, now lives in Co. Kerry.