{"id":4962,"date":"2025-03-29T12:36:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/?post_type=events&#038;p=4962"},"modified":"2025-04-01T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:01:59","slug":"poetry-reading-by-paula-meehan","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/events\/poetry-reading-by-paula-meehan\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Reading by Paula Meehan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">29 March 2025 at 6.30pm<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"820\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FLAF_2025_FRAME_POETRY_READING-3-820x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FLAF_2025_FRAME_POETRY_READING-3-820x1024.png 820w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FLAF_2025_FRAME_POETRY_READING-3-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FLAF_2025_FRAME_POETRY_READING-3-768x959.png 768w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FLAF_2025_FRAME_POETRY_READING-3-1230x1536.png 1230w, https:\/\/jamesjoyce.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/FLAF_2025_FRAME_POETRY_READING-3-1640x2048.png 1640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 820px) 100vw, 820px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The James Joyce Centre in association with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fivelampsarts.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Five Lamps Arts Festival<\/a><\/strong> is proud to host a reading with acclaimed poet <strong>Paula Meehan<\/strong> and special guest <strong>Theo Dorgan<\/strong> on <strong>Saturday, March 29th at 6.30pm<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><strong>Paula Meehan<\/strong><\/strong>\u00a0was born and raised in Dublin\u2019s 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 <em>As If By Magic: Selected Poems<\/em> (2020) and <em>The Solace of Artemis<\/em> (2023), which received the Pigott Prize for Poetry, 2024. They are published by Dedalus Press, Dublin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Theo Dorgan<\/strong> is a poet, writer and lecturer, translator,\u00a0and 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\u00a0on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 and RT\u00c9 Television&#8217;s books programme,\u00a0<em>Imprint<\/em>. He was the scriptwriter for the television documentary series\u00a0<em>Hidden Treasures<\/em>. His songs have been recorded by a number of musicians, including Alan Stivell,\u00a0Jimmy Crowley, and Cormac Breathnach. He was awarded the Listowel Prize for Poetry in 1992, the O&#8217;Shaughnessy Prize for Irish Poetry in 2010, and the Poetry Now Award for\u00a0<em>Nine Bright Shiners<\/em> in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Doors open at 6pm. 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