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Ó Bhéal<\/strong><\/font> in association with <\/font>Foras na Gaeilge<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n presents a bi-lingual evening with<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n Diarmuid Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n You can listen to Diarmuid’s reading here<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n <\/font>Rugadh Diarmuid Johnson <\/strong> sa mBreatain Bheag, agus t\u00f3gadh i nGaillimh \u00e9, \u00e1it ar bhain s\u00e9 c\u00e9im amach sna teangacha Ceilteacha sna hocht\u00f3id\u00ed. T\u00e1 blianta go leor caite aige si\u00falach san Eoraip \u00f3 shin, ag scr\u00edobh, ag teagasc agus ag casadh ceoil. Scr\u00edobhann s\u00e9 fil\u00edocht i nGaeilge agus i mB\u00e9arla, agus s\u00e9 leabhra pr\u00f3is sa mBreatnais. T\u00e1 Diarmuid lonnaithe l\u00e1imh le hAberystwyth sa mBreatain Bheag le deich mbliana anuas, ach is \u00e9 saol an spailp\u00edn is ansa leis, agus i l\u00e1thair na huaire, tar \u00e9is d\u00f3 tr\u00e9imhse a chaitheamh sa bPolainn, t\u00e1 s\u00e9 ina l\u00e9acht\u00f3ir in iolscoil Bonn sa nGearm\u00e1in. L\u00e9ifidh s\u00e9 d\u00e1nta d\u00fainn anocht a foils\u00edodh i S\u00fail Saoir<\/i> (CIC, 2004), agus sna cnuasaigh ilteangacha Another Language<\/i> (2009) agus A Young Sun<\/i> (2011), maraon le saothar eile, idir Ghaeilge agus Bh\u00e9arla, at\u00e1 ar na boc\u00e1in aige faoi l\u00e1thair. B\u00edg\u00ed ag s\u00fail le port ceoil chomh maith. Bionn fli\u00fait sa m\u00e1la ag Diarmuid cuma c\u00e1 dt\u00e9ann s\u00e9.<\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a> Ó Bhéal<\/strong><\/font> presents an end of year reading with<\/font><\/p>\n Gillian Clarke<\/strong><\/p>\n You can listen to Gillian’s reading here<\/a>.<\/p>\n And there are 14 videos from the night here<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n <\/a> Eileen Casey<\/strong><\/p>\n You can listen to Eileen’s reading here<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n Her debut poetry collection Drinking the Colour Blue <\/em>(New Island) was published in 2008. Reading Hieroglyphs in Unexpected Places<\/em> and From Bone to Blossom <\/em>(supported by South Dublin Arts and County Offaly Arts) are collaborative works with Co. Offaly Visual Artist Emma Barone. Snow Shoes<\/em> (Arlen House), a debut collection of short stories was published in June, 2012, of which Deirdre Madden wrote; \u2018Rooted in the quotidian \u2013 a supermarket, a travelling salesman, a couple on a beach holiday \u2013 but full of wisdom, humanity and sly humour<\/em>.\u2019 <\/p>\n She was a visiting writer on the 2011 Eastern Kentucky University Winter Residency, in Lexington, Kentucky. She devised and edited a number of publications which include writers from all over South Dublin County: Under the Pyramid<\/em>; Caught in Amber<\/em>; Flavours of Home<\/em>; and New Myths and Tales<\/em>.<\/p>\n Eileen will also be holding a <\/font>wordshop<\/strong><\/font> entitled The Lost<\/i> and Found<\/i> Poetry Workshop from 7.00pm to 8.30pm at Ó Bhéal. For more details click here<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a> Peadar O’Donoghue<\/strong><\/p>\n You can listen to Peadar’s reading here<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/a> Ó Bhéal<\/strong><\/font> in association with <\/font>The Munster Literature Centre<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n presents the launch of<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n Southword<\/strong> Issue 23 – Winter Edition<\/p>\n You can listen to the Southword readings from Cal Doyle, Afric McGlinchey, Donal O\u2019Driscoll, John W.Sexton, Michael Sheehan and Rosalin Blue here<\/a>.<\/center><\/p>\n Each issue of Southword has hundreds of readers, and has published the likes of Haruki Murakami, Tess Gallagher, Billy Collins, James Lasdun, Sin\u00e9ad Morrissey, Medbh McGuckian, Philip Gross and Colm Toib\u00edn alongside new and emerging poets. Please join us for the launch of Southword Issue 23 kindly hosted by \u00d3 Bh\u00e9al, which will include readings by a selection of mostly Cork-based authors from the current and past issues. <\/p>\n <\/font><\/p>\n <\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.obheal.ie\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/DiarmuidJohnsonSm.jpg\"\/)
<\/font>Diarmuid Johnson<\/strong> was brought up in Galway in the 70s and 80s. He studied Celtic languages and literature in Galway. For over 20 years now, he has been travelling in Europe and throughout the Hiberno-British archipelago, teaching, writing and playing music. He is currently lecturer in Irish at the University of Bonn, Germany. Author of several books of poetry, translations from Welsh, and writings on language and literature, he will read in Cork from S\u00fail Saoir<\/i> (CIC, 2004), A Young Sun<\/i>, a plurilingual collection published recently, and from The Woods are Growing Younger<\/i>, a series of poems about the psychological legacy of political turbulence in Europe in the 20th century. Also on the programme: extracts from a new ‘alternative’ Irish-English dictionary, and tunes on the flute and whistle. <\/p>\n
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<\/font>Gillian Clarke<\/strong>, National Poet for Wales since 2008, was born in Cardiff and lives in Ceredigion. She is President of T\u0177 Newydd, the Welsh Writers Centre which she co-founded in 1990. She has published ten collections of poems and a book of prose At the Source<\/i>. Her latest poetry collection Ice<\/i>, is shortlisted for the TS Eliot Award. In December 2010 she was awarded the Queen\u2019s Gold Medal for Poetry, and the Wilfred Owen Award in 2012.<\/p>\n
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<\/font>Originally from the Midlands, Eileen Casey <\/strong>has lived in Tallaght since the late 1970\u2019s. Poet, fiction writer and journalist, she holds an M.Phil in Creative Writing from The School of English, Trinity College, Dublin. Her work is widely published in outlets such as The Moth, Verbal Arts Magazine, The Ulster Tatler, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Ireland Newsletter, Senior Times, The Irish Times, Ireland of the Welcomes, The Jelly Bucket<\/em> (USA), The Coffee House<\/em> (UK), among others. Recent awards include a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship and a Hennessy Literary Award (Emerging Fiction). <\/p>\n
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<\/font>Peadar O’Donoghue<\/strong> is yet to be recognized as Ireland’s greatest living poet, and this must surely be a matter of minutes rather than hours. He founded, edits, and makes his own tea at The Poetry Bus <\/i> magazine which, now in it’s fourth incarnation, is set to tilt the universe on its axis. His debut collection of poetry Jewel<\/em> – published by Salmon Poetry in May 2012, was launched to rave reviews online and in Ambit<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n
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<\/font><\/font>Southword Journal <\/strong>has been publishing poems, short stories and reviews by Munster and international writers since it was founded in 2001 by then Munster Literature Centre director, Mary Johnson and inaugural editor Patrick Galvin. January 2013 marks the 23rd issue (not counting special supplemental issues) and is now under the direction of Patrick Cotter as an exclusively online literary journal, which is free to read online. <\/p>\n
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<\/font>Bernadette McIntyre <\/strong> is a native of Cork city where she grew up in Glenbrook and Mayfield. She spent most of her working life as a language teacher with Co Kilkenny VEC but returned to Cork in 2007; she now lives in Gurranabraher where she works as a professional translator\/editor and freelance writer.<\/p>\n