President Higgins has arrived in #Belfast, to announce the name of the new Ireland Professor of Poetry, @ChairOfPoetry. pic.twitter.com/jttTc6PAOF
— President of Ireland (@PresidentIRL) September 6, 2019
This afternoon.
Meanwhile…
Glad he didn’t fly this time but then that’s a very carefully crafted piece of PR
— Brian M (@brianymoran) September 6, 2019
Update:
Frank Ormsby is today announced by @PresidentIRL, Michael D. Higgins, as the eighth Ireland Professor of Poetry!
📸: Malachi O’Doherty@artscouncil_ie @ArtsCouncilNI @tcddublin @ucddublin #irelandprofessorofpoetry #poetry #irishpoetry pic.twitter.com/TDZfFd8Uru
— IrelandChairOfPoetry (@ChairOfPoetry) September 6, 2019
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Poetry in Ireland ended with Kavanagh. Poets ever since have clambered upon his back in the hope of being relevant. No one buys, let alone reads, poetry today, and if they do it’s just their friends and other poets, embarrassed into attending a launch to make up the numbers .
Nonsense, you have obviously never read some of Kevin Higgins pieces here, as timeless as the tides….
Kevin Higgin’s poetry proves Cormac’s point.
Beyond woeful, Emperor’s new clothes stuff.
Just because you don’t read it doesn’t mean it’s not read
Pat Iingoldsby is a good modern example. Paul Durcan, Evan Boland, Nuala ni Dhonaill, Paula Meehan, et all. There was some chap called .. Heaney I think it was also.
Ah, that Heaney fella. Never amount to much will he….
;-)
…famous Seamus?
…wasn’t it Kavanagh who claimed that the standing army of poets in Ireland never dropped below 10000…
@ bisted: He referred to a standing army of 10,000 *doggerel* poets.
How much do you get for doing the “Professor of Poetry” gig? Also, are there any quantifiable deliverables?
If you want to know, why don’t you look it up?
“While in residence, the poet gives informal workshops or readings, spends time working with students and performing outreach work and makes one formal presentation a year, usually in the form of a lecture.”
ability to spout endless amount of … mandatory but not compulsory.
So Belfast is in Ireland sometimes?
Nope. Belfast in is the UK and hopefully will be for a long time.
Nope. Belfast is very definitely in Ireland. It happens to be part of the UK politically. That can change and has before and will again. It will, however, remain in Ireland.
Lads
Where are yere manners
Be upstanding for the most read poet in Ireland FFS
John Moynes
The President could carry his own briefcase – like Bergoglio.
Traitor.
You know it.
We all know it.
He’s a remainer? Well, he kept that one quiet!
He’s a globalist homogenist.
Called for the dissolution of national sovereignÿ on his state visit to the Germany cityÿ of Lipseig. Abandoned his constitutional responsibilities to please his deep state overlords.
He’s a waste of space. He should vacate the office.
Pointless man. Terrible poet.
That Brian Moran guy is a reactionary CTE rugby guy