Irish Writing Centre Events coming up

The Irish Writing Centre in Dublin has a number of events coming up namely:




28.03.14 from 7-9pm Open Mic night taking place on the last Friday of every month. Writers, spoken-word artists, comedians and musicians are all welcome to perform. There's a place for scriveners of every hue.


Admission is free but donations welcome. It's a BYOB

31.03.14 - 03.04.14 Irish Writers' Centre is delighted to partner with this year's festival to present three events of a literary hue:

On the Edge of the Parish: 'Growing Up at the Five Lamps' – a talk by Ann Matthews.

Temper-Mental MissElayneous (Elayne Harrington) and Andre K'Por. Two poets of the concrete will, together, disseminate a duo manifesto spoken word showcase

Dickens in Dublin by Laurence Foster. Written and performed by Laurence Foster, this is a recreation of one of Dickens' visits to Dublin

01.04.14 Launch of Celia de Fréine’s new collection of poetry: cuir amach seo dom: riddle me this.

cuir amach seo dom: riddle me this, is Celia de Fréine's new collection of poetry (Arlen House) which will be launched by Micheál Ó Ruairc. cuir amach seo dom : riddle me this is Celia de Fréine's sixth collection. As its name suggests, the title poem, which she wrote while in Slovenia, takes its cue from the riddle, a traditional Slovenian form. Also included in the collection are the sequences The Lady and the Unicorn: An Bhean Uasal is an tAonadharcach and Monsanto written in Paris and Portugal respectively.

12.04.14 Seminar on Copyright & Authors' Rights by Samantha Holman CEO of the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency. The seminar will look at what is copyright and what does it allow and prevent? Is it a barrier to innovation or does it adequately protect creators' rights. The recent publication of the Copyright Review Committee's recommendations for change in Ireland and Judge Chin's decision favouring Google in the Google Books case make for interesting times in the world of copyright. If you want an understanding of where we are and where things might be heading or even just to ask some basic questions about copyright, this seminar is for you! Cost: €30 non members; €25 members

                                    15.04.14 A reading with Colin Carberry...

Colin was born in Toronto and spent some of his childhood in Lanesboro, Co. Longford. He now lives in Mexico with his wife and daughter. Colin is the author of the poetry collections The Crossing (Bearing Press, 1998), The Green Table (Exile, 2003) and Ceasefire in Purgatory (Luna, 2007). He is also the translator of two collections by one of Mexico's greatest poets, Jaime Sabines, including Love Poems (Biblioasis, 2011). Colin's poems have been translated into many languages. He has read from his work on radio and television, and at book fairs, embassies, literary festivals and universities in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canada, Ireland, Mexico, Serbia, Slovenia, and the United States. In 2010, he founded the Linares International Literary Festival, of which he is artistic director. Colin's latest book, a co-translation into Spanish of Jack Harte's third novel, Arcana, was published by Scotus Press in 2013. Keep an eye out for the specifics over the coming week and check out the link below for more details... but be sure to save the date.

For more details on these events and more, go to http://writerscentre.ie/html/events/atthecentre.html