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We welcome two of Ireland's best known women poets plus this year's T.S.
Eliot Prize winner. The Irish Studies Program has announced
its spring poetry readings schedule. All readings are free and open to the public. They
take place in various locales on the University campus.
Mary O'Malley
Wednesday, Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m.
Room 300, St. Augustine Center for the Liberal Arts
Mary O'Malley is the author of four published collections: A Consideration of Silk,
Where the Rocks Float, The Knife in the Wave and her newest, Asylum Road. She was the 1990
recipient of the Hennessy Award for her poetry. She also received an Irish Arts Council
Bursary, which enabled her to complete her second book. She is a member of the Cuirt
Poetry Festival organizing committee and of the board of Poetry Ireland/Eigse Eireann. She
was recently elected to Aosdana, which celebrates excellence in the arts in Ireland.
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
Wednesday, March 14, 7 p.m.
Connelly Center Cinema
Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill is the spring 2001 Charles A. Heimbold Jr. Professor of Irish
Studies at Villanova. She has published nine books of poetry in the Irish language. She
has written three plays for children and three screenplays, all in Irish, as well as the
libretto for The Wooing of Eadoin, sung by the Irish National Chambre Choir in 1994. She
has contributed to several Irish poetry anthologies and edited Jumping Off Shadows:
Selected Contemporary Irish Poets. Her work has won her a number of prestigious literary
prizes, both in Ireland and the United States.
Michael Longley
Wednesday, April 4, 6:30 p.m.
President's Lounge, Connelly Center
In January, it was announced that Michael Longley had won the T.S. Eliot prize,
considered the most prestigious in the poetry world, for his book, Weather In Japan, which
also earned him the Hawthornden award last summer. He is known for his ability to draw
universal insight from the most minute observations of nature. Fellow Irish poet Paul
Muldoon has characterized Longley's poetry: "at first glance small scale but which
always expands our sense of history, be it of ancient Greece, The Second World War,
Germany or Northern Ireland. Longley is a skilled lyric poet of compassion and
grace."
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