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Irish-language poet to read at free event in Galway's new Museum

category galway | arts and media | event notice author Wednesday September 20, 2006 19:58author by Fred Johnston - Manager - Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scribhneoiri Chaitlin Maude

Lunchtime event - admission free!

Western Writers' Centre continues to assist Irish-language writers

Poet Dairena Ní Chinnéide will give a lunchtime reading on behalf of the Western Writers' Centre - Ionad Scríbhneoiri Chaitlín Maude - in Galway City Museum on Wednesday, October 11th, starting at 1.05pm.
Admission is free.
Dairena Ní Chinnéide lives in the West Kerry Gaeltacht of Corca Dhuibhne. Her first bilingual collection of poetry "An Trodaí agus Dánta Eile/The Warrior and Other Poems" was published by Cló Iar Chonnachta in 2006. She received second prize in the Samhain Smurfit International Poetry Competition in 2004. She was awarded a bursary from Ealaíon na Gaeltachta and the Arts Council the same year.
"We are delighted to have Dairena read for us at the new Museum, and our thanks to Udarás na Gaeltachta and the staff of Galway City Museum for their enthusiastic support, " said the Centre's manager, Fred Johnston. "It is a vital component of the Centre's project strategy that we continue to support and encourage new writing in the Irish language, as we did, for example, with our two winter weekend festivals."
The reading will be in Irish with translations in English. In 2005 Dairena was shortlisted for the Strokestown International Poetry Competition and received a bursary from Bord na Leabhar Gaeilge. She represented Ireland on the Words Unbound international poetry exchange visiting France, England and Belgium. She also represented Ireland on "Cuairt na mBard" poetry and musical exchange with Scotland and the Outer Hebrides.
Dairena is currently working on the Gaelic Jazz Project for IMRAM 2006 and her second poetry collection "Máthair an Fhiaigh/The Raven's Mother" is due for publication in 2007/2008.
The Western Writers' Centre is supported by The Arts Council, Galway City and County Councils,and Poetry Ireland, and by private donations under the Friends of the Centre scheme. Detailsof the reading can be had at 091.533595 or westernwriters@eircom.net
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