Frances Browne Multilingual Poetry Competition - Awards Event, featuring Nessa O'Mahony
FREE
Join us as we announce the winners of, and hear readings from, the winning poets in this year's multilingual poetry competition.
When: Friday 11th October: 7.30pm
Venue: Kee's Hotel, Main Street, Stranorlar, F93 FR9K
This is a free event, but seat reservation is required as space is limited.
This is a free event. Booking is required to assist us with catering.
Our Poetry Awards event is a must for anyone interested in poetry, language and literature. Celebrating the three languages of the Finn Valley, we award three top prizes in each category of English poetry, Irish poetry and Ulster Scots poetry. We listen to our winning poets communicating their own poems in the way only authors can.
Translating Achievement into Legacy – Women writers from the 1800s to the 2020s.
In this keynote address, Nessa O’Mahony considers the precarious legacy of women writers, noting how the great achievements of writers such as Frances
Browne and her near contemporary, Margaret King Moore, disappeared from literary history over the course of time and places that disappearance in the
context of how we memorialise contemporary women writers today.
About Nessa O'Mahony
Nessa O’Mahony, a Dublin native, has published five collections of poetry and is a respected voice in both fiction and non-fiction. Her work includes "Bar Talk" (1999), "Trapping a Ghost" (2005), "In Sight of Home" (2009), "Her Father’s Daughter" (2014), and "The Hollow Woman on the Island" (2019). She is also an esteemed editor and an advocate for celebrating diverse voices in literature, having curated tributes such as the Poetry Ireland Review Issue 138 dedicated to Eavan Boland. O’Mahony currently serves as an associate lecturer with The Open University and holds a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Wales, Bangor.
