Poetry Ireland
cultural organization
Poetry Ireland (Irish: Éigse Éireann) is an organisation for poets and poetry, in both Irish and English, in the island of Ireland. It is a private nonprofit organisation that receives support from the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. It was founded in 1978 by John F. Deane and is based in Parnell Square, Dublin. Its thirtieth anniversary in 2008 was celebrated by events all over Ireland culminating in an event at the Irish College in Paris.
Director
The current director is Liz Kelly. Her predecessors have included Niamh O'Donnell, Maureen Kennelly, who is now director of the Arts Council of Ireland, Joe Woods, Theo Dorgan and Rory Brennan.
Board
Ciarán Benson (Chairperson) Professor Emeritus of Psychology University College Dublin
Olwen Dawe, policy analyst and consultant
Peter Fallon, poet, editor and publisher
Joan McBreen, poet
Christine Monk, cultural publicist
Joe Moreau, Managing Partner of Byrne Moreau Connell, Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors
Alan Moore, writer and poet
Paul Muldoon, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the T. S. Eliot Prize
Jean O'Mahony, Head of Policy and Research in AIB's Corporate Affairs and Strategy Division
Tristan Rosenstock, TV and radio presenter and musician
Bill Shipsey, Barrister and the founder of Art for Amnesty
Publications
Poetry Ireland publishes Poetry Ireland Review, a journal of Irish poetry, which is published quarterly and includes the work of both emerging and established Irish and international poets. It appoints a new editor every four issues.
Poetry Ireland's bimonthly newsletter Poetry Ireland News includes information on readings, competitions, festivals, opportunities, articles and essays.
Poetry Ireland has recently launched Trumpet, a literary pamphlet intended to be more accessible than the Review to the casual reader.
“Poetry Ireland” enters the record as cultural organization. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Poetry, Ireland and cultural can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7207494. Authority coordinates are 53.354, -6.265. 1 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1978 and 2008.
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