Events in 2023
05.10.23 National Poetry Day, Armagh (TBC)
12-14.04.23 Alumni Weekend, Berlin
Events in 2022
13.11.22 The Poetry Programme, RTE Radio 1
13-15.09.22 Fingal Poetry Festival, Skerries
30.04.22 Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend, Achill Island
Events in 2021
11.11.21 Samhain agus Science: Sonnets for Science, DIAS with Ian Jubb https://youtu.be/-0ouM60eXE4
2-5.06.21 American Conference for Irish Studies, Derry (zoom)
27.04.21 University of The Third Age, Dun Laoghaire-Dalkey-Killiney (zoom)
29.01.21 Alumni Awards, Trinity College, Dublin (zoom)
Events in 2020
14.11.20 Poetry Clips, johnhewittsociety.org
10.11.20 ‘Astronomy and Poetry’, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin (zoom)
29.09.20 Trinity Retirement Association, Dublin (zoom)
09.09.20 Worldwide Reading for Democracy – IRELAND/ILF Berlin (zoom)
24.07.20 Poem of the Week, 1rishartscenter.org
16.06.20 Oxford Bloomsday 2020, youtube.com
Events in 2019
09.12.19 DUWA Lunch, Trinity College, Dublin
21.11.19 ‘Surface Science in Turbulent Times’, Institute of Physics, London
09.11.19 Presentation to Dr Carmel Naughton, Trinity College, Dublin
19.10-02.11.19 Heinrich Böll Cottage Residency, Achill Island, Co Mayo
14.10.19 William Carleton Summer School, Clogher, Co Tyrone
20.9.19 Birr Castle, County Offaly
11.09.19 AvH@250, Residence of the German Ambassador, Dublin
06.09.19 Skerries Mills, Skerries, County Dublin
17-20.07.19 Bridges 2019, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
04.07.19 Opening of Poetry Jukebox, EPIC, Irish Migration Museum, Dublin
03.07.19 Poetry Jukebox on Arena, RTE Radio One
01.07.19 Cedar Crest College MFA program, Trinity College, Dublin
24.06.19 Launch of Shane Finan Art Exhibition, Zoology Museum, Trinity College, Dublin
15.05.19 Graduation, Bailieborough Community School, County Cavan
03-06.05.19 Strokestown International Poetry Festival
18.04.19 Strokestown International Poetry Festival Launch, Poetry Ireland
11.04.19 MATRIX Haiku Competition, Belfast
27.03.19 Riverside Readings, University of Ulster at Coleraine
07.03.19 Joyce-Cycle Poetry Competition, Poetry Ireland, Dublin
09.01.19 St Bridget’s Reading Group, Belfast
Events in 2018
15.11.18 Sligo Science Festival, Sligo
22.10.18 O Bheal, Cork
19.10.18 ‘Voices of ’68’, Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy
16.10.18 A Mystic Dream of 4, The Market Place Theatre, Armagh
04.10.18 LitLab Exhibition, Bailieborough Library, Co Cavan
02.10.18 A Mystic Dream of 4, Universitaet Chemnitz, Germany
07-08.09.18 St Cross College, Oxford
04.09.18 Rhymes & Reflections, Schroedinger at 75, Trinity College Dublin
11.08.18 Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy (with Alice Lyons and Kerrie O’Brien)
19.07.18 Moon Cycle for the Festival of Curiosity, Dunsink Observatory
23.06.18 European Physical Society, Dunsink Observatory
20.06.18 International Women’s Forum, Dunsink Observatory
24.05.18 The Radiant Stranger, Trinity College Dublin
22.05.18 St Kilian’s German School, Dublin
10.05.18 Trinity Showcase, London
07.o5.18 Dingle Bookshop, Dingle, Co Kerry (with John O’Donnell)
05.o5.18 ‘Refracting Rhymes’, Feile na Bealtaine, Dingle, Co Kerry
10.04.18 ‘Energy’ Trinity College Dublin
03.04.18 ‘Time Travel’ Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (with Nathan O’Donnell)
08.03.18 StAnza Poetry Festival, Scotland (interview with Greg Tate)
21.01.18 Books Upstairs (with Catherine Ann Cullen and Patrick Deeley)
17.01.18 Attic Sessions (interview with Nessa O’Mahoney)
11.01.18 Arena, RTE Radio 1 (interview with Kay Sheehy)
Events in 2017
14.12.17 Over The Edge, City Library, Galway
o6.12.17 Belfast Natural History & Philosophical Society
30.11.17 Kavanagh 50 Years or So, TCD
18.11.17 ‘Refracting Rhymes’, Tate Britain, London
16.11.17 The Great Hunger, Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin
15.11.17 The Bone Vault, National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
14.11.17 Launch of ‘The Eyes of Isaac Newton’, Schroedinger Theatre, TCD
03-05.11.17 PoetryFest 2017, Irish Arts Center, New York, USA
28.10.17 Michael McLaverty, Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Bellaghy
21.10.17 International Yeats Society Conference, New York, USA
19.10.17 University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA
14.10.17 The Writer’s Center, Bethesda, USA
12.10.17 Lenoir-Rhyne University, North Carolina, USA
09.10.17 Charlotte Library, Vermont, USA
05.10.17 The Bookstore, Lenox, Massachusetts
04.10.17 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA
03.10.17 Phillips Exeter Academy, New Hampshire, USA
22.09.17 Culture Night, TCD
12.05.17 Alumni Awards TCD
06.05.17 Edgeworthstown Literary Festival, Co Roscommon
21.03.17 Liverpool University, Liverpool
21.02.17 Northern Ireland Science Festival, Belfast
18.02.17 ‘Physics & Poetry’ Trinity College Dublin
Events in 2016
26.10.16 John Hewitt Birthday Readings (with Alan Gillis and Emma Must), Belfast International Arts Festival
25.10.16 At The Edge (with John D Kelly, Freda Donohue and Susan Millar DuMars), Cavan
06.10.16 National Poetry Day (UK) (with Kate Newman), City Library, Armagh
30.09.16 ‘William Rowan Hamilton’s Mystic Dream of 4’, Lisbon
16.09.16 Culture Night (with Catherine Anne Cullen), Pearse St Library, Dublin
21.07.16 Night Cycle / Moon Cycle, Festival of Curiosity, Broome Bridge, Dublin
25.06.16 Robert Boyle Summer School, Lismore Co Waterford
14.06.16 ‘A Poetic View of William Rowan Hamilton’, Institute of Physics, London
28.05.16 Poeticas, Castlemaine, Australia
26.05.16 North Shore Poetry Project, Sydney, Australia
21.05.16 Varuna at Sydney Writers Festival, Australia
12.05.16 Otago University, New Zealand
10.05.16 Hagley Writers’ Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand
06.05.16 Waikari, New Zealand
03.05.16 University of Wellington, New Zealand
21.05.16 Varuna-Sydney Writers Festival, Australia
13.04.16 Poetry at University House (with Petra White), Canberra, Australia
11.04.16 ‘Physics and Poetry – not so different?’, University of Canberra, Australia
02.03.16 Science Meets Poetry, Books Upstairs (with Kate Dempsey and Noel Duffy, and introduced by Jim Malone)
24.02.16 Sunflower Sessions, Nealon’s, Dublin
11.02.16 Alliance Party Fundraiser, Town Hall, Portrush
30.01.16 ‘Listen@Arthur’s’, Arthur’s Pub, Dublin
28.01.16 ‘William Rowan Hamilton’s Mystic Dream of 4’, Physoc, TCD
27.01.16 STACCATO, Toner’s Pub, Dublin
Events in 2015
16.12.15 Windharp, Embassy of Poland, Dublin
06.12.15 ‘William Rowan Hamilton’s Mystic Dream of 4’ Books Upstairs, Dublin
01.12.15 Launch of Everything to Play For: 99 Poems about Sport, Hodges Figgis, Dublin
18.11.15 The Franconian Society, Erlangen
16.11.15 Hermes Club, Erlangen Universitaet
27.10.15 ‘William Rowan Hamilton’s Mystic Dream of 4’ Magnus-Haus, Berlin (with pianist Grainne Dunne)
24.10.15 Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Erlangen Universität
19.09.15 The Farside Festival, Athlone
18.09.15 Culture Night, Long Room Hub, TCD
02.09.15 ‘Sesquicentenary of the Death of William Rowan Hamilton’ Royal Irish Academy
01.08.15 ‘William Rowan Hamilton’s Mystic Dream of 4’ Birr Castle (Birr Vintage Week)
29.07.15 John Hewitt International Summer School, Armagh (with Moyra Donaldson)
27.06.15 Robert Boyle Summer School, Lismore Co Waterford
16.06.15 Bloomsday, Half Moon Pub, Oxford
12.06.15 Meeting, ‘Reading and Remembering Seamus Heaney’ Italian Institute of Culture, Dublin
02.06.15 ‘Taking The Plunge’ Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire (with Martina Devlin)
08.05.15 United Arts Club, Dublin
07.05.15 The Lestrygonian Sessions, Red Bank Wine Bar, Dublin
05.05.15 Irish Times http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/unthinkable-what-s-the-use-of-poetry-1.2195306
02.05.15 Strokestown Poetry Festival, Co Roscommon
23.04.15 Cedar Crest College, Allentown PA, USA
13.04.15 ‘Light Metre’ Trinity Monday, TCD
01.04.15 Launch of Koffeehouse.com Long Room Hub, TCD
27.03.15 Alumni Awards TCD
15.03.15 St Patrick’s Festival Kanturk Co Cork
12.03.15 Poems for Peace, TCD
26.02.15 A Mystic Dream of 4, Pearse St Library, Dublin (with Noel Duffy and Paula Murphy)
19.02.15 NI Science Festival @ No Alibis Belfast
Events in 2014
11.11.14 Midlands Science Festival, Athlone
05.11.14 The Lab, Foley St Dublin (with Luke Drury) see http://vimeo.com/111720266
02.11.14 Sunday Feature: Science and Poetry BBC Radio 3 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n2zcp
28.10.14 Common Room, TCD (with pianist Grainne Dunne)
19-25.10.14 Tin Jug Residency, Birr Co Offaly
16.10.14 A Mystic Dream of 4, Linen Hall Library, Belfast
11.10.14 Bailieborough Festival
25.09.14 Creative Writing, University of Massachusetts, Boston
23.09.14 The Bookstore, Lenox, Massachusetts
18.09.14 Celtic Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
13.09.14 Celebrating Seamus Heaney On Home Ground 2014, Magherafelt
20.08.14 If Ever You Go, with Gerald Smyth, Patrick Deeley, Jean O’Brien & Nessa O’Mahoney, Dundrum Library Centenary, Dundrum, County Dublin
05.08.14 Carleton Summer School, with Noel Monaghan, Clogher, County Tyrone
10-11.07.14 Science and Literature, Athens
04.07.14 Celebrating 50 years of Physics, UCD
30.06.14 Trieste Joyce School, Trieste
25.06.14 Science Meets Poetry 4, ESOF 2014, Copenhagen
16.06 14 Bloomsday, Oxford
29.05 – 01.06.14 Physics and Literature, Erlangen
17.04.14 If Ever You Go…, Hodges Figgis Bookshop
03.04.14 If Ever You Go…, Rathgar Bookshop
Events in 2013
12.12.13 A Tribute to Seamus Heaney, Derry City Library
11.12.13 Launch of A Mystic Dream of 4, Public Library, Armagh
29.11.13 Wintering Out, Crumlin Park House, Ballyglunin, Co Galway
31.10.13 Launch of A Mystic Dream of 4, the Long Room, Trinity College
18-19.10.13 Poesie et Prose, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
22.09.13 Mill Miscellanea, Dundrum Theatre, Dundrum
20.09.13 A Tribute to Seamus Heaney, On Home Ground, Magherafelt
27-28.07.13 Creative Writing Workshop, Patrick Kavanagh Centre
15.06.13 Bloomsday (almost) Oxford
06.06.13 Launch of Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet
17.05.13 Alumni Awards, Trinity College
13-19.05.13 The Irish Poem Is features on www.thepoetryproject.iealong with the video until the end by Anne Ffrench
03-05.05.13 Strokestown Poetry Festival
16.04.13 The Bookstore, Lennox MA
11.04.13 American Conference on Irish Studies, Chicago
11.04.13 (with Siobhan Campbell) Irish American Heritage Center, Chicago
08.04.13 (with Siobhan Campbell and Anne-Marie Fyfe) Writer’s Center, Bethesda
06.04.13 Fergie’s Bar, Philadelphia
11.03.13 (with Michael Schmidt) Long Room Hub, Trinity College
02.03.13 A Tribute to Dennis O’Driscoll, Ennis Bookclub Festival
Events in 2012
14.12.12 Paradise Lost, Trinity College Dublin http://paradiselostreading.wordpress.com/the-recordings/
18.10.2012 Lecture: Schroedinger in Dublin, Little Museum of Dublin
04.10.12 Emotionality and The Human – an Anthropological Perspective, Royal Irish Academy
01.10.12 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Irish Writers Centre
21.09.12 Culture Night, TCD Long Room Hub
14.09.12 Poetry for Beginners Workshop, Carlow County Library Pen Fest, Carlow
06.9.12 Launch of Windows Anthology, Irish Writers Centre
05.09.12 Sunday Miscellany at Mountains to Sea Book Festival, Dun Laoghaire
14.07.12 Science Meets Poetry, Euroscience Open Forum 2012
16.06.12 The Business, RTE Radio 1
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2012/0616/1224318012721.htm
15.06.12 Read for the World, Irish Writers Centre, Dublin
24.03.12 Intermediate School, Killorglin, Co Kerry
20.02.12 Arts Tonight, RTE Radio 1
05.02.12 Opening of Lithosphere, Visual Gallery, Carlow
Events in 2011
28.11.11 Simon Fundraiser, Bad Ass Cafe, Dublin
24.11.11 Friends of The Library, TCD
04.11.11 Alumni Awards, TCD (with Eileen, Catherine and Anthony)
29.10.11 Kenny-Naughton Autumn School, Aghamore, Co Mayo
22.10.11 Magdalen College, Oxford
20.10.11 Dublin Contemporary 2011
08.09-06.10.11 Residency in Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
07.09.11 ESB 2011, Royal Hospital Kilmainham
03/04.09.11 Electric Picnic, Stradbally (with Grace, Paul, David and Ayoma)
26.08.11 Tercentenary of The School of Medicine, TCD
06.08.11 People’s Festival, Portadown
01.08.11 William Carleton Summer School, Clogher, County Tyrone
27.07.11 The National Gallery, Dublin
23.07.11 Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival, Monasterevin, County Kildare
03.07.11 Alchemy, Anglo-American University Library, Prague
16.06.11 Irish Festival, Bloomsday, Oxford
07.05.11 John Hewitt Spring Festival, Carnlough, County Antrim
Great Northern Novel Event: l-r Iggy McGovern, Kate Newman and Michael Foley photograph by Paul Maddern
15.03.11 Science & Literature, Long Room Hub, Trinity College
09.03.11 Dublin University Women’s Club, Provost’s House, Trinity College
05.03.11 Dublin Books Festival, Project Arts Theatre, Dublin
26.02.11 Kate O’Brien Weekend, Belltable Theatre, Limerick
10.01.11 New York TCD Alumni Association, Ireland House, Manhattan
Closing Event 2010
Launch of Safe House, Graduates Memorial Building, Trinity College Dublin