Reading

29 March 2025 at 6.30pm

The James Joyce Centre in association with The Five Lamps Arts Festival was proud to host a reading with acclaimed poet Paula Meehan and special guest Theo Dorgan on Saturday, March 29th at 6.30pm.

Paula Meehan was born and raised in Dublin’s north inner city. Her award-winning poetry has garnered widespread popular and critical acclaim. Her poetry has been scored for choirs, for solo voice, has been made into songs by artists from divers traditions (the folk, including the legendary Christy Moore, and the avant garde), wee films, danced, inflicted on the youth of the country in school and university, and 8/1 to come up on the Leaving Cert. Recent publications are As If By Magic: Selected Poems (2020) and The Solace of Artemis (2023), which received the Pigott Prize for Poetry, 2024. They are published by Dedalus Press, Dublin.

Theo Dorgan is a poet, writer and lecturer, translator, and screenwriter. A former director of Poetry Ireland, Theo has worked as a broadcaster of literary programmes on both radio and television. He was the presenter on RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ Television’s books programme, Imprint. He was the scriptwriter for the television documentary series Hidden Treasures. His songs have been recorded by a number of musicians, including Alan Stivell, Jimmy Crowley, and Cormac Breathnach. He was awarded the Listowel Prize for Poetry in 1992, the O’Shaughnessy Prize for Irish Poetry in 2010, and the Poetry Now Award for Nine Bright Shiners in 2015.

The James Joyce Centre is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.