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