As part of a series of events celebrating the naming of the Eavan Boland Library, there will be a very special reading of her poems selected by poet and novelist, Colm Tóibín, Laureate for Irish Fiction 2022 – 2024, on Thursday 24th April at 7pm. The reading will take place at the Edmund Burke Theatre. The event coincides with the anniversary of Eavan Boland's untimely death in April 2020.
There will be an introduction and welcome on behalf of Poetry Ireland by Catriona Crowe and it will be Chaired by Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
Readers include the poet's daughters Eavan and Sarah Casey, poets Mary O’Malley and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, poet and novelist Sebastian Barry and broadcaster and journalist Doireann Ní Bhriain.
The event is a collaboration between Poetry Ireland and the Library of Trinity College Dublin.
The event is free but booking is essential through Eventbrite.
All are welcome.