IMRAM Féile Litríochta Gaeilge 2021

SAMHAIN/NOLLAIG 2021

CLÁR IMRAM Samhain/Nollaig 2021 SAMHAIN

11

14

PRINE MAC DHONNAGÁIN

15 & 21

NA CONALLAIGH

16 17 18 GLASADH

TRAKL

REIC

NOLLAIG

25 12 14

GALA READING

TURAS

15 3 &19

MIS

RAIDÍO MOLI

SNEACHTA

SOCIAL MEDIA

WWW.IMRAM.IE | TUILLEADH EOLAIS / FURTHER INFORMATION Liam Carson r-phost/e-mail info@imram.ie Fón/phone (087) 291 2797 STIÚRTHÓIR NA FÉILE / DIRECTOR Liam Carson BORD IMRAM / FESTIVAL BOARD Ciarán Mac an Bhaird; Clár Ní Bhuachalla; Aoileann Ní Bhroin, Bríd Ní Ghruagáin (cathaoirleach), Fionnuala Ní Dhúgáin, Alan Titley FIOSRÚCHÁIN PHOIBLÍOCHTA / PUBLICITY QUERIES Please contact Mary Folan, Publicist (086) 392 7081 | mmfolan@gmail.com

BUÍOCHAS Ó CHROÍ LE / HEARTFELT THANKS TO: Sarah Bannan & foireann, An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The Arts Council; Peter Sirr; Saorlaith Ní Nualláin, Foras na Gaeilge; Ray Yeates, Dublin City Arts Office; Cathal & Rós Póirtéir; Gabriel Rosenstock; Julianne Mooney Siron, Dublin Book Festival; Niamh O’Donnell & Jane O’Hanlon, Éigse Éireann/Poetry Ireland; Emily Kirwan, Cashel Arts Festival; Simon O’Connor & Benedict Schlepper-Connolly, Múseam Litríochta na hÉireann/Museum of Literature Ireland; Joe Breathnach, Raidió na Life; Tristan Rosenstock; Ciara Ní É; Fergus Daly; Patrick Cotter, Ionad Litríochta an Deiscirt/Munster Literature Centre; Michael Everson, Evertype; Dáithí Ó Maolchoille; Tom Bluett, Bluett Conran Charted Accountants; Peter Salisbury; John O’Brien, Culture & Creative Industries Consultant; Michelle Ryan, Paul O’Connor & Steve Hall, Epik Media; Niall Mac Eachmharcaigh; Joe Devenney agus John Casey, Drioglann Chroithlí; Hugh Murray & team, Pavilion Theatre; Liam Grant; Margaret Lonergan; Kieran Nolan, Oldtown Creative; Niamh Lawlor & Eithne Carson.

CREDITS John Prine image: illustration by M. Lonergan, photograph by Eric Frommer (Flickr, Commons).

Blas na gConnallach: illustration by M. Lonergan, photograph of Cró Nimhe by Andreas F. Borchert.

11 Samhain/November Pavilion Theatre

DÉARDAOIN 11 SAMHAIN Thursday 11 November | 8.00pm PAVILION THEATRE, Dún Laoghaire €25/23 Booking: (01) 231 2929 or paviliontheatre.ie

Duine de liriceoirí móra Mheiriceá ba ea John Prine agus an-lucht leanúna aige in Éirinn. Chleacht sé stíleanna éagsúla, ceol na ndaoine, bluegrass, racabilí agus ceolta tuaithe. Croiniceoir na ngnáthdhaoine ab ea é agus is i gcaint na ndaoine a scríobh sé. Bíonn greann go minic sna liricí aige agus é ag plé le téamaí an ghrá, dul in aois, agóid shóisialta agus téamaí eile nach iad. Eisiachas Proustach, a thug Bob Dylan ar a shaothar.

Cuimsíonn Áit a gCanann na hAingil an chuid is fearr dá shaothar agus é aistrithe go healaíonta ag Art Hughes agus Gabriel Rosenstock. Is iad na haingil a chuirfidh an saothar mór seo i láthair ná Liam Ó Maonlaí (guth, pianó, organ béil), Peter O’Toole (giotár) agus Hilary Bow (guth agus fonnadóireacht taca). Chruthaigh Margaret Lonergan íomhánna de na liricí le teilgean ar scáileán, íomhánna cartlainne agus íomhánna ealaíne a bheidh ag freagairt d’ábhar na n-amhrán.

John Prine was one of America’s greatest songwriters in the twentieth century, and much loved in Ireland. Where the Angels Sing includes a selection of Prine’s very best songs – from ‘Lake Marie’ to ‘Angel from Montgomery’ and ‘Summer’s End’ – rendered into exquisite Irish by Art Hughes and Gabriel Rosenstock. They will be performed live by Liam Ó Maonlaí (vocals, piano, harmonica), Peter O’Toole (guitar) and Hilary Bow (vocals). Margaret Lonergan has created screen projections of the lyrics featuring archive images of Prine fused with art reflecting the content of the songs.

DÉ DOMHNAIGH 14 SAMHAIN Sunday 14 November | 12.30pm THE PUMPHOUSE, Dublin Port Heritage Centre Booking: dublinbookfestival.com | €5

COMHRÁ LE CATHAL CATHAL PÓIRTÉIR I gCOMHRÁ LE TADHG MAC DHONNAGÁIN

TADHG MAC DHONNAGÁIN IN CONVERSATION WITH CATHAL PÓIRTÉIR Tá sceitimíní ar IMRAM agus ar Fhéile Leabhar Átha Cliath agus sinn ag tnúth leis an gcomhrá seo idir Tadhg agus Cathal Póirtéir faoina shaol agus faoina shaothar agus seans go spreagfar é chun stéibh nó dhó a rá.

Duine ildánach is ea Tadhg Mac Dhonnagáin, úrscéalaí, údar do pháistí, giotáraí agus amhránaí, scríbhneoir scripteanna agus foilsitheoir. Bronnadh Gradam Uí Shúilleabháin air as an mórshaothar Mise Raiftearaí: An Fíodóir Focal (Leabhar Gaeilge na Bliana 2015), beathaisnéis an fhile. Ba é Tadhg a chruthaigh an tsraith do dhéagóirí AIFRIC agus ba é príomhscríbhneoir na sraithe é. Cuid de na leabhair do pháistí a tháinig óna pheann is ea Fionn agus na Fianna sa tsraith leabhar miotaseolaíochta (An Gúm, 2006–2009). Tá úrscéal nuafhoilsithe uaidh Madame Lazare, scéal teaghlaigh, scéal a bhaineann leis an Uileloscadh agus atá suite i bPáras, sa Bhruiséil agus cósta thiar na hÉireann.

Tadhg MacDhonnagháin is one of the most dynamic talents in modern Irish culture – a novelist, children’s author, guitarist and singer, screenwriter and publisher. His recently published novel Madame Lazare (Futa Fata), a tale of family secrets, war and the Holocaust that takes us from Paris to Brussels to the west coast of Ireland.

In association with Dublin Book Festival.

DÉ LUAIN 15 SAMHAIN Monday 15 November | 1.00pm Booking: dublinbookfestival.com | Saor in aisce

BLAS NA gCONALLACH 1 Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh agus Nia Ní Bheirne; Máire Dinny Wren agus Cáit Nic Fhionnlaoich; Doimnic Mac Giolla Bhríde; Colette Ní Ghallchóir; agus Máire Ní Choilm In association with Dublin Book Festival

DÉ DOMHNAIGH 21 SAMHAIN Sunday 21 November | 1.00pm Booking: Eventbrite.ie | Saor in aisce

BLAS NA gCONALLACH 2 Cathal Ó Searcaigh; Megan Nic Ruairí; Eithne Ní Ghallchobhair; Brian Ó Domhnaill; agus Sam Ó Fearraigh

Ba é Cathal Póirtéir a tharraing aos dána le chéile i nDrioglann Chroithlí le ceiliúradh a dhéanamh ar chultúr na Gaeilge san iarthuaisceart, idir an fhilíocht chomhaimseartha agus shaibhreas na hamhránaíochta traidisiúnta. Tá an ócáid líon lán le buaiteoirí ag Oireachtas na Gaeilge, idir na comórtais liteartha agus na comórtais amhránaíochta mar aon le scríbhneoirí agus ceoltóirí eile a léiríonn go bhfuil an oidhreacht sin ag dul ar aghaidh ó ghlúin go glúin ar fud na contae.

Two special online gala performances of song and poetry from Donegal filmed in the magical setting of the Crolly Distillery during the summer. Curated and presented by Cathal Póirtéir. Filmed by Epik Media.

DÉ MÁIRT 16 SAMHAIN Tuesday 16 November | 8.00pm ONLINE FILM Booking: Eventbrite.ie | Saor in aisce Le linn na dianghlasála a tharla de dheasca Covid-19, chum Rody Gorman sraith dánta iontacha, breis is céad díobh, i nGaeilge na hAlban agus i mBéarla. Dialann liriceach, d’fhéadfá a rá, den tréimhse aisteach úd nuair a bhí an cine daonna gan chosaint. Ar an Eilean Sgitheanach (Eilean a’ Cheò) a bhí Rody agus an dúlra mar chompánach aige: an chuach ag glaoch is an tsailchuach faoi bhláth, na coinnle corra á bheannú ón gcnoc. Tá greann ann chomh maith nuair is céilí beag ag dhá

cheann an tsiopa é an scaradh sóisialta, nó é ag insint scéilíní don chlapsholas ar zúm. Tá an bhuairt ann, gan amhras, an tsochraid gan mórán sochraideoirí, an píobaire aonair. Ina dhiaidh sin is uile, bhraithfeá go bhfuil an pobal ann láidir fós, agus laethanta ciúnais agus áilleachta á gceiliúradh acu.

During the Covid-19 lockdown, Rody Gorman wrote a series of over a hundred remarkable poems in Scottish Gaelic and English that form a lyrical diary. Within lockdown on the Isle of Skye, Gorman found himself attending to nature – from the sounds of the cuckoo to the flourishing of violets and bluebells on the hillsides. There are comic moments where social distancing becomes a ‘wee ceilidh at the two ends of the shop’ or of ‘telling stories to dusk’ on zoom. Within these poems there is a keen sense of life and community surviving against the odds, and a celebration of days of silence and beauty.

Glasadh features a selection of these poems recited by Gorman himself, and accompanied by music and sound effects composed

by Liam Grant, and fused with photos and art responding to the texts, created by Margaret Lonergan.

DÉ CEADAOIN 17 SAMHAIN Wednesday 17 November 7.00pm & 8.00pm ONLINE FILMS

Duine de na filí liriceacha ba thábhachtaí san aois seo caite ab ea Georg Trakl. Tá a chuid filíochta ar maos leis an mbás catastrófach, íomhánna cogaidh, ionfhabhtú, plá, seachmall – ach is aisteach cé chomh hálainn is atá páirc an áir aige, dathanna agus comharthaí siombalacha, fíoracha aislingeacha ag teacht is ag imeacht ina n-aingil aeracha. Duine d’fhilí cosmacha na Gearmáinise, ar aon chéim le Rilke.

AN UNCANNY GLITTER THE POETRY OF GEORG TRAKL

7.00pm | ONLINE FILM Booking: Eventbrite.ie | Saor in aisce Georg Trakl is one of the most important lyric poets of the twentieth century. His apocalyptic poems are uncannily beautiful in their use of symbolic colours and signs, and in the appearance and vanishing of dreamlike figures and strange angels. Of his work, Herbert Lindenberger commented ‘the haunting music of Trakl’s poetry now mark him, with Rilke, as perhaps the last great representative of what could be called the sublime tradition in German.’ An Uncanny Glitter features Irish language versions of Trakl’s work by Gabriel Rosenstock, accompanied by visual interpretations of the poems by Margaret Lonergan and a haunting soundtrack composed by Seán Mac Erlaine.

CRAORAG

CRIMSON: AN IRISH TRAKL 8.00pm | ONLINE FILM Booking: Eventbrite.ie | Saor in aisce

IMRAM is also delighted to host the début broadcast of Craorag, directed by Fergus Daly. Filmed in the 1990s, this beautiful lyrical documentary follows Gabriel Rosenstock as he travels across a snowy Austria to Salzburg, on a journey to find the soul of Trakl. In Irish with English subtitles.

In association with Éigse Éireann / Poetry Ireland.

DÉARDAOIN 18 SAMHAIN Thursday 18 November | 8.00pm McGRATTAN’S Eventbrite.ie | €5

Tá an-áthas ar IMRAM ardán a thabhairt anocht do REIC. Cloisfear Dairena Ní Chinnéide a raibh a leabhar Tairseach ar ghearrliosta Ghradam Uí Shúilleabháin 2021. I measc na ngradam atá buaite aici tá an Patrick & Katherine Fellowship in 2016. Is scríbhneoir, aisteoir agus file í Eva O’Connor. Bhuaigh dráma léi Mustard an Scotsman Fringe First Award in 2019. Is file, aistritheoir liteartha agus ealaíontóir focal é Eoin McEvoy ar foilsíodh saothar leis ar Comhar, Feasta agus The Stinging Fly. Tá spraoi liriceach ag baint lena chuid filíochta.

Tionscadal nua hip-hop é Súil Amháin a chruthaigh an file Séamas Barra Ó Súilleabháin i gcomhar leis an DJ agus ceoltóir Rob Mulhern as Tuath, banna rac turgnamhach as Dún na nGall a mbaineann gnéithe sicideileacha leis.

REIC (pronounced ‘wreck’) is a bilingual, and often multilingual, spoken word event featuring poetry, rap, music, storytelling, and everything else you can think of! It provides a welcoming space where Gaeilge is encouraged. REIC is held monthly in Dublin and features at festivals around the country Tonight IMRAM is delighted to host REIC, with a line-up featuring poets Dairena Ní Chinnéide, Eva O’Connor and Eoin McEvoy.

Súíl Amháin is a new hip-hop project created by poet Séamas Barra Ó Súilleabháin in which he joins forces with DJ and musician Rob Mulhern. This magical night will be hosted by REIC founder, broadcaster, and poet Ciara Ní É.

Gala DÉARDAOIN 25 SAMHAIN

Thursday 25 November | 7.00pm

MUSEUM OF LITERATURE IRELAND Booking: IMRAM.ie/tickets | Saor in aisce

POETRY READING

MÓROÍCHE FILÍOCHTA ÁINE NÍ GHLINN

RÓISÍN SHEEHY

ALAN TITLEY

ANDREAS VOGEL

Laureate na nÓg í Áine Ní Ghlinn agus tá níos mó ná triocha leabhar tagtha óna peann, saothar a chuimsíonn gearrfhicsean, úrscéalta, filíocht, agus drámaí don aos óg. Damhsóir comhaimseartha í Róisín Sheehy, cóiréagrafaí, drámadóir agus file. Sa chéad chnuasach uaithi, Líomóidi ‘s Rubarb iniúchtar an ealaín, an stair, tírdhreach, béaloideas agus dúlra go liriceach grástúil. Fathach litríochta é Alan Titley – úrscéalaí, scoláire, gearrscéalaí, colúnaí, file, criticeoir agus drámadóir.

As Bochum na Gearmáine d’Andreas Vogel agus é ag cur faoi i Leitir Móir anois. I measc na leabhar uaidh tá Chomh Gar ‘gus is Féidir (Nicht näher), iniúchadh ar na spásanna idir thíortha, idir theangacha agus idir dhaoine. Áine Ní Ghlinn’s latest collection Rúin Oscailte touches on themes of history, memory, family and art. Róisín Sheehy’s début collection Líomóidi ‘s Rubarb celebrates poets, folklore and nature with elegant lyricism. Alan Titley’s poetry plays with every form imaginable, from the haiku to the sonnet and the litany. Andreas Vogel explores ‘the spaces between countries, between languages, between people.’

In his thángamar chonaiceamar cosamar he presents micro-poetry that echoes Sappho’s fragmented poems.

I gcomhar le Músaem Litríochta na hÉireann

DÉ DOMHNAIGH 12 NOLLAIG Sunday 12 December | 8.00pm ONLINE FILM | Booking: Eventbrite.ie | Saor in aisce

TURAS

PILGRIMAGETIMEJOURNEY TRÍRÍNÍ LE RODY GORMAN/TERCETS BY RODY GORMAN Baile Átha Cliath, Dún Laoghaire, Cill Mhantáin agus Ríocht ársa Chualann a spreagann saothar gleoite seo Rody Gorman, tírdhreach agus cuimhní fite fuaite ina chéile. Tugtar ar imram sinn ar fharraige focal ó Mhuilte Uí Bheoláin agus Droichead Portobello i gcroílár na hardchathrach, via tránna Chuas an Ghainimh agus Rinn na Mara, go dtí sliabh eibhir Chipiúr agus lochanna Chill Mhantáin. Machnamh ar aislingí na hóige atá sa seó cumasach seo, le híomhánna scaileáin ó Mhargaret Lonergan agus fuaimdhreacha beo á gcruthú agus á seinm ag Seán Mac Erlaine.

Dublin, Dún Laoghaire, Wicklow and the ancient Kingdom of Cuala are at the heart of Rody Gorman’s exquisite poetic pilgrimage through landscape and memory. In this series of tercets – three line poems in Irish and in English – Gorman takes us on a journey from Boland’s Mill and Portobello Bridge in Dublin city, via the beaches of Sandymount and Seapoint, to the granite mountain of Kippure and the lakes of Wicklow. He recalls school days ‘on Charleville Road with Ms O’Rourke’s books’; a childhood ‘vision-poem dream beside the Poddle’; and sees himself ‘back on my own in Bewley’s, our salon de thé, like it was only yesterday and in 1966’.

Rody reads to visuals created by artist Margaret Lonergan and soundscapes created and performed by composer and musician Seán Mac Erlaine. Film editing by Liam Grant.

DÉ MÁIRT 14 NOLLAIG Tuesday 14 December | 8.00pm ONLINE FILM Booking: Eventbrite.ie | Saor in aisce

Tá triúr filí, duine acu i mBéarla agus an bheirt eile i nGaeilge, ag dul i ngleic le téama an tsneachta sa tionscadal seo. Duine acu is ea Mícheál Ó hAodha, údar an tsaothair Leabhar Dubh an tSneachta, cnuasach gearrdhánta ata ag ple le cuimhne, caillteanas agus sneachta. File agus ealaíontóir colláise í Helen Ivory, údar Waiting for Bluebeard agus The Breakfast Machine. Domhan suaite a léiríonn sí, dar le Penelope Shuttle, suaite ach meallacach mar sin féin, lán d’íoróin is míshuaimhneas. Léifidh Gabriel Rosenstock haiku leis an máistir Issa, ó cheantar an tsneachta Shinano sa tSeapáin, traschruthaithe i nGaeilge. Tá íomhánna againn ó Margaret Lonergan agus tionlacan ceoil ó Enda Reilly.

The Snow Project features three poets – two in Irish, one in English – exploring the theme of snow. Mícheál Ó hAodha has just recently published Leabhar Dubh an tSneachta, in which he explores themes

of loss, memory and snow. Helen Ivory is a poet and collage artist, and the author of Waiting for Bluebeard and The Breakfast Machine.

Penelope Shuttle has described her work as creating ‘a troubled yet beguiling world rich in irony and disquiet’. Gabriel Rosenstock reads Irish transcreations of a selection of haiku by Issa inspired by the snowy landscapes of Shinano in Japan. Margaret Lonergan has created beautiful visuals, whilst the poets read to musical accompaniment from Enda Reilly. Film editing by Liam Grant.

Athinsint ar rómáns meánaoiseach é Mis de chuid Biddy Jenkinson, tour-de-force amach is amach. Téann Mis, iníon le Dáire Déadgheal, le gealaigh nuair a thagann sí ar chorp a hathar ar pháirc an áir i ndiaidh Chath Fionntrá. Caitheann sí trí chéad bliain ar Shlibh Mis i gCiarraí agus i beo ar shlad is ar chanablacht, dochar mór á dhéanamh aici don dúiche. Dála Shuibhne Geilt, gabhann sí cruth éin chuici féin, an crotach, an spideog, an charóg liath, an colm bán.

Gealtachas, foréigean, gnéas agus greann, saothar mealltach mistéireach. Chruthaigh Enda Reilly, cumadóir agus giotáraí, cúlra ceoil don údar agus chruthaigh Margaret Lonergan íomhánna scanrúla.

DÉ CÉADAOIN 15 NOLLAIG Wednesday 15 December | 8.00pm ONLINE FILM Eventbrite.ie | Saor in aisce

Mis by Biddy Jenkinson is a tour-de-force retelling of an Irish medieval romance. Mis, the daughter of Dáire Déadgheal, goes mad when she finds her father’s body on the battlefield after Cath Fionntrá (The Battle of Ventry). She then spends three hundred years, to the great harm of the land, surviving on plunder and cannibalism on Sliabh Mis in Kerry. Like Mad Sweeney, she takes the form of birds – curlews, robins, scald crows, and white doves.

In this film Biddy reads Mis to a musical backdrop created by composer and guitarist Enda Reilly and stunning images from Margaret Lonergan. Film editing by Liam Grant.

MÍ NA NOLLAG Throughout December

DÉ hAOINE 3 NOLLAIG Friday 3 December https://moli.ie/radio/series/blas-ar-an-mbeagan

BLAS AR AN mBEAGÁN

GEARRSCÉALTA Á gCRAOLADH AG IMRAM

SHORT AND SWEET

THE IMRAM SHORT STORY BROADCASTS Ábhar mórtais d’IMRAM sraith craoltaí a fhógairt, craoltaí a chloisfear i gcaitheamh mhí na Nollag agus ar léiriú a bheidh iontu ar chuid den ghearrfhicsean is fearr sa Ghaeilge. Ina measc beidh Rúin na Seacht gCaisleán – Scéalta Trasalvánacha, leabhar nua Gotach á léamh ag an údar Gabhán Ó Fachtna. Léifidh Biddy Jenkinson scéalta bleachtaireachta a bhainfidh leis an lorgaire Pádraig Ó Duinnín, foclóirí agus cara le Sherlock Holmes. Cloisfear scéalta osréalacha ón leabhar Féach Gach Treo á léamh ag an údar Mícheál Ó hUanacháin.

Cuirfear clabhsúr ar an tsraith le dhá scéal as An Leabhar Nimhe, le Panu Petteri Höglund, ina dtagann saol na miotas Cthulu de chuid HP Lovecraft agus béaloideas na hÉireann le chéile ar bhealach scanrúil.

On Friday 3 December, IMRAM is proud to release a series of broadcasts featuring the very best of modern short fiction in Irish. These will feature Gothic Transylvanian themed stories from the recently published Rúin na Sceacht gCaisleáin, read by author Gabhán Ó Fachtna. Biddy Jenkinson reads detective stories

featuring the sleuth and friend of Sherlock Holmes, lexicographer Pádraig Ó Duinnín. Mícheál Ó hUanacháin reads two tales of the fantastic and the surreal from his latest book Féach Gach Treo.

The series will also include two stories from An Leabhar Nimhe

by Panu Petteri Höglund, in which the worlds of HP Lovecraft’s Cthulu Mythos and Irish folklore merge to spine-chilling effect.

Series produced by Tristan Rosenstock, and curated by Liam Carson.

DÉ hAOINE 10 NOLLAIG Friday 10 December https://moli.ie/radio/series/agallaimh-imram/

AGALLAIMH IMRAM THE IMRAM INTERVIEWS Tristan Rosenstock talks to Irish language writers working outside of Ireland. Available online from Friday 10 December onwards.

Síceolaí, file, scríbhneoir agus máthair as Ceantar na nOileán i gConamara í Julie Breathnach-Banwait. Ag tagairt don Ghaeilge, deir sí: ‘Tá seilbh ag an teanga orm. Is í an teanga a chruthaigh is a mhúnlaigh mé. Táimid doscartha óna chéile in aon taipéis chasta amháin.’

Julie Breathnach-Banwait lives in Western Australia. In Dánta Póca, her incantatory poems enter the emotional realms where the physical meets the psychological.

Tógadh faoin tuaith é Colin Ryan in Oirdheisceart na hAstráile, áit ar lonnaigh a shinsir sna 1860í. Baineann a chuid gearrscéalta le ridirí an bhóthair, coirpigh, saighdiúirí, na mairbh, daoine atá ar iarraidh, daoine a bhfuil daoine eile á lorg acu agus daoine a bhfuiltear sa tóir orthu.

Colin Ryan lives Melbourne. His surreal stories touch on people who are searching for others, and those who are being searched for. His poetry in Corraí na Nathrach is a haunting exploration of colonialism and landscape.

Is file, úrscéalaí, ceoltóir agus físealaíontóir é Diarmuid Johnson.

Tá cáil ar na hathinsintí atá déanta aige ar sheanscéalta, an leabhar is déanaí acu Éadaoin. Baineann an leabhar Seacht dTír, Seacht dTeanga lena chuid taistil mar cheoltóir fáin sa Pholainn, staidéar sa Ghearmáin agus a chinniúint á lorg aige sa Róimh agus sa Bhruiséil; saol ar an imeall, saol éigse agus ceoil.

Diarmuid Johnson is a poet, novelist, musician and visual artist who lives in Brussels. His latest book is Seacht dTír, Seacht dTeanga, a lyrical travel memoir.

TIONSCADAIL FILÍOCHTA DE CHUID IMRAM AR NA

MEÁIN SHÓISIALTA IMRAM POETRY PROJECTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA

Ó mhí na Samhna ar aghaidh, beidh IMRAM le feiceáil i bhfad níos minice ar Facebook, twitter agus Instagram. Díreofar ar dhá thionscadal ar leith i dtosach From November 2021 onwards, IMRAM will be significantly increasing its presence on Facebook, twitter and Instagram. This will initially focus on two poetry projects.

DORNÁN HAIKU ÓN tSEAPÁIN A FISTFUL OF HAIKU FROM JAPAN

Tagraíonn Gabriel Rosenstock don fhoirm cháiliúil trí líne seo mar fhilíocht aon anála a chuireann lenár dtuiscint do bheith beo go hiomlán sa nóiméad éalaitheach. Sa tionscadal seo, nochtar domhan dúinn atá á chruthú agus á mheath os ár gcomhair trí shúile máistrí haiku Seapánacha i gcaitheamh na gcéadta. Léireofar na buntéacsanna agus an traschruthú gleoite gonta atá déanta ag Rosenstock orthu.

Seachtó haiku ar fad agus iad á gcur i láthair ag an dearthóir Kieran Nolan ar shleamhnáin áille le haghaidh na meán sóisialta.

In this project, we are brought in a world of transient beauty as captured by Japanese haiku poets through the ages. Transcreated into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock, and accompanied by the original Japanese texts, this selection of seventy haiku is beautifully presented by designer Kieran Nolan in slides that will appear on social media. Haiku sourced from Blue Willow Haiku World.

ÉIGSE CHINÉITEACH KINETIC POETRY

Léiríonn an tionscadal seo réimse leathan filíochta ó fhilí aitheanta agus filí atá ag teacht chun cinn le tamaillín anuas. Sna gearrscannáin chinéiteacha seo dá saothar tá a ndéantúis curtha in iúl le cabhair ón gceamara agus ón gclóghrafaíocht. Cloisfear guthanna na bhfilí féin.

Ciarán Ó Meachair atá i mbun deartha.

This project features a wide range of work from established and new poets rendered into short kinetic text films that feature imaginative visual and typographic interpretations of their work.

We hear the voices of the poets themselves, and the design is by Ciarán Ó Meachair.

NA FILÍ / THE POETS Áine Ní Ghlinn; Colin Ryan; Julie Field; Gabriel Rosenstock; Róisín Sheehy; Julie Banwait-Breathnach; Marius Burokas & Dairena Ní Chinnéide; agus Marcus Mac Conghail

LIVE AND ONLINE EVENTS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021

A V O YA G E O F D I S C O V E R Y Aidhm IMRAM saibhreas na litríochta Gaeilge comhaimseartha a roinnt le cách agus an pobal a thabhairt linn ar aistear mistéireach.

IMRAM aims to bring its audiences on a ‘voyage of discovery’ that reveals the rich diversity of modern Irish language literature.

TUILLEADH EOLAIS/FURTHER INFORMATION: Liam Carson r-phost/e-mail info@imram.ie Fón/phone (087) 291 2797

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