Reading Eavan: A Tribute to the Poet Eavan Boland

14/05/2024 1h 21min
Reading Eavan: A Tribute to the Poet Eavan Boland

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Episode Synopsis

As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2024, we came together to celebrate the life and work of poet Eavan Boland, who died in 2020.
A selection of invited writers read their favourite of Eavan's poems, and shared a memory of their connection with her. There was also music, contributing to what was a friendly and inclusive evening to commemorate the beloved poet.

MC: Evelyn Conlon
Readers:
David Butler - Mise Éire
Mary Rose Callaghan - An Irish Childhood in England:1951
Ella Barry - Legends (for Eavan Boland)
Susan Connolly - The Lost Land
Evelyn Conlon - The Grape Pickers
Katie Donovan - The Pomegranate
Anne Fitzgerald - That the Science of Cartography is Limited
Catherine Phil MacCarthy - The Journey
Mary Milne - In Our Own Country
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - The Oral Tradition
Mary O'Donnell - A Woman Painted on a Leaf
Gerard Smyth - Unheroic
Louise C Callaghan - Margin
Joseph Woods - Quarantine
Máiride Woods - Love
Sarah Casey - Eviction
Musicians:
Róisín Ward Morrow & Breifne Holohan - The Wounded Hussar and Cailín as Contae Lú

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