​Poetry with Linda McKenna and Michael Dooley
​& Music with Laura O'Sullivan

Sunday, 15 September  |  5.30pm  |  60 mins.
Christ Church
Free

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Doire Press presents two of their published poets, Linda McKenna and Michael Dooley with music from Laura O’Sullivan.
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The title poem from Linda McKenna’s debut poetry collection, In A Museum of Misremembered Things, won the An Post/Irish Book Awards Poem of the Year 2020.  She won the Seamus Heaney Award for Poetry and the Red Line Festival Award in 2018.

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Michael Dooley's poems have appeared in Banshee, the Irish Independent, Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, and online at RTE Culture. In 2023, he was the featured poet in the summer edition of The Stinging Fly, and read at Listowel Writers’ Week. His debut collection, In Spring We Turned to Water (2024), is published by Doire Press.
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Laura O’Sullivan is originally from County Clare but has been settled in Nenagh for many years. She began playing traditional Irish music from a young age and performing in places like Bunratty, Dromoland and Knappogue Castles. She is greatly influenced by the noble compositions of Turlough O’Carolan and interested in the evolution of harp accompaniment for Irish songs.