22nd Hopkins International Literary Festival 2009

- each year during the last week of July since 1987 this celebration of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and his links with Monasterevin have been celebrated with visitors from around the globe

The best literary festival in Ireland - Editor, The Companion to Irish Literature

GM Hopkins International Literary Festival

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We hope all our visitors had a pleasant trip home

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Visitors group around the James McKenna Hopkins Monument in Monasterevin
James McKena and The Gerard Manley Hopkins Monument


Our unique 2008 Youth Programme was bigger and better than ever!
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Each year, since 1987, scholars and lovers of Hopkins's poetry have come from all over the world to Monasterevin to celebrate the work and creativity of this great Victorian poet. Not to be missed!

22nd Gerard Manley Hopkins

International Literary Festival

July 25 - 31, 2009

(Still, the 'best literary festival in Ireland')

Call for Papers

(before November 30, 2008)

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Fin danswers to your questions on Hopkins's poetry in our Gerard Manley Hopkins Archive - a free resource for scholars, students and Hopkins enthusiasts everywhere


Wow Events of 2008 Festival

  • Classical Music Concert in Moore Abbey Baronial Hall with leading Irish pianist, Míceál O'Rourke

  • The Maynooth Day (Sunday July 20, 2008), a real high-light, with Lectures, Guided Tours, Reception and finishing up with Banquet. See what was organised here.
NUIM Maynooth Gateway

Enjoying the NUI Maynooth Day
NUI Maynooth Day

  • Multi-lingual Workshop under the able leadership of Aleksandra Kedzierska. Visitors from eleven different linguistic backgrounds analysed and deepened their understanding of a Hopkins poem, No Worst, there is none .... They brought unique cultural and linguistic insights to help achieve a better understanding of a great Hopkins poem. See some of the results of this deliberation here.

  • Poetry Readings daily including Vit Janota (Czech Republic); Li Li (China); Shizue Ogawa (Japan); David Axelrod (US); Peter Masters (Greece);Alan Riach (Scotland); Dragan Dragojlovic (Serbia); Kirsti Simonsuuri (Finland); Anatoly Kudriavitsky (Russia); Vicki Rhomberg (Austria) Brian Keenan; Michael O Conghaile; Diarmuid Johnson; Desmond Egan; Neil Donnelly; Ruairi Gough (Ireland) and more.

2008 Youth Programme

We are proud of our unique Youth Programme which runs parallel and interacts with the Hopkins International Literary Festival.

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  • Tree-Planting in the Gerard Manley Hopkins Garden in Monasterevin 2008

    Celebrating Hopkins in National University of Ireland Maynooth

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    2008 Lectures available here

    Cathy Phillips (Cambridge University); Alan Riach (Glasgow University); Brian Arkins (NUI Galway) and many more to come ...

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    Catherine Phillips (Cambridge University) awarded the Hopkins Literary Award in 2008

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