'A bright gem in the literary world'. Patrick Samway SJ
Poetry Readings bring Irish amd International Poets to Newbridge for the Hopkins Literary Festival
9.30 Festival Club: Coffey’s
Three poems: Katharine Coles
A Favourite Hopkins Poem: Kevin Fagan; Miho Takahashi; Elaine Marshall;
Michael Allsopp; Anne Doyle; Bruno Gaurier; Elaine Murphy; Mirko Starčević
MC: Elizabeth Doyle
8.00 Poetry Ireland Reading
Newbridge College Theatre presented in association with Poetry Ireland
Diarmuid Johnson; Gabriel Fitzmaurice Desmond Egan
MC: Elaine Murphy
5.00 INTERNATIONAL POETRY CELEBRATION
Newbridge College Theatre
William Adamson: poem by
Paul Celan;
Elaine Murphy: Patrick Kavanagh
Derek Egan: Máirtín O Direáin
Three poems each by poets:
Patricia Cleary Miller (USA); Kevin McEneaney (USA)
Selese Roche (Ireland); Donald Gardner (UK);
Lena Koster (Sweden); Morri Creech (USA);
Michael Woods (UK); Graham Foust (USA); Desmond Egan
Music by Conor Mahony
MC: William Adamson
8.00 Festival Club: O’Rourke’s
Three poems: Lena Koster (Sweden)
Philip Brady (Ireland)
Noh Theatre poems: Koji Katsurayama
MC: Elizabeth Doyle
8.30 Festival Club: Cummins’s
O’Connor Award 2025:
Christy Ennis, presented by Derek Egan
Three poems: Graham Foust, Kevin McEneaney
MC: Morgan McCabe