Guest Speaker- EU Commission Year of Skills Closing Event ’24

Commissioned by the EU Commission to write an original poem on the topic of skills. Performed at their Year of Skills Closing Event in Brussels, April 2024.

Cork City Libraries and Creative Ireland – Limited Edition Notebook

Cork City Library and Creative Ireland Notebook Project, Poets Ireland, Cork poets

To celebrate their involvement with the Creative Ireland Programme in 2023, the Cork City Council Arts Office and Cork City Libraries produced a set of notebooks with a quote on the cover extracted from a handful of poems published in Cork Words (published by Cork City Libraries). A line from my poem ‘Heatwave in Cork City was selected. There were 12 different quotes selected for the notebooks, handmade by Barbara Hubert Bookbinding. Thanks to Patricia Looney of Cork City Library for all of the wonderful and innovative work they do there to promote local artists.

Howl- New Irish Writing

Lovely to have my poem ‘There’s No War in Calabasas’ included in Howl New Irish Writing 2023 (Published by Howl New Irish Writing), edited by Lauren O’Donovan and Róisín Leggett Bohan.

World Poetry Slam Championship, Rio De Janeiro 2023

Ireland's Poetry Slam Champion
Slam poet Ireland

Spoken Word Ireland

Ireland Slam Poet — It was a great pleasure to represent Ireland at the World Poetry Slam Championship at FLUP Festival in Rio De Janeiro 2023

Electric Picnic 2023

Spoken word artist ireland

Female Spoken word poet Ireland

European Poetry Slam, Rome 2022

Spoken Word Poet Ireland, YA AUTHOR IRELAND

Represented Ireland at the European Poetry Slam in Rome 2022, hosted by WOW – Incendi Spontanei

Cork Midsummer Festival 2021- Art Gifts

Feminist YA Author — It was a real pleasure to participate in Art Gifts as part of Cork Midsummer Festival in June, presented as part of Brightening Air. I was one of twenty Cork artists who had the opportunity to deliver live performances right to people’s doorsteps. After a year of no live performances this was a really heart-warming event to be a part of.

First Fortnight (Therapy Sessions)

Irish artist — Loved being a part of First Fortnight, I’m a big fan of the festival and all the great work they do. 2021

GCN Article

Read Article here: https://gcn.ie/all-ireland-slam-poetry-champion-won-poem-replacing-priests-drag-queens/

Wishful Thinking

Wishful Thinking, a 75 minute comedy-drama play, was performed as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2019 and the Cork Arts Theatre Emerging Artist’s Programme, 2019. The play centred around twenty- something year old, Siobhán, who returns home to East Cork having failed to make it as a journalist in London. Back in the nest, she discovers her mother and cousin have adopted new age spiritual practices to help cope with a death in the family. While worshipping at the altar of self-help, they try to encourage the deeply cynical and newly nihilistic Siobhán out of her slump. The play starred the wonderfully talented Karen Killeen, Siofrá O’ Meara and Claire O’ Donovan.

Theatre Artist Ireland Spoken Word Comedy — Poster Image shot by Elaina Walsh O’Reilly

Spoken Worlds: Paper Incantations

In 2019 I was selected to take part in O’Bheal’s Twin City Poetry Exchange with Coventry. As part of this programme, a collection of my poetry was published in the pamphlet Spoken Worlds: Paper Incantations along with fellow performance poet, Benjamin Burns. We got the opportunity to go to Coventry and perform our work there, sponsored by Cork City Council.

Autonomy

Edited by Kathy D’Arcy, New Binary Press

I was delighted to have my poem ‘Of Mice and #MeToo’ in the book Autonomy, edited by Kathy D’Arcy, published by New Binary Press. Autonomy is a women-led collection of stories, poems, memoirs, essays, articles, screenplays and more exploring what it means to have bodily autonomy. My featured poem, Of Mice and #MeToo, is an exploration of what it was like growing up as a woman in a world that condones casual sexual harassment. Profits from the sale of the book went to support those working to ensure that all women have access to the full range of reproductive healthcare, including safe, legal abortion

The Time Emma met Alex

Played the role of Emma in short film ‘The Time Emma met Alex’, written and directed by Felix Castaldo. The short, produced by Cork’s The Rain Company, won the Creative Cork award at Indie Cork Film Festival 2018. Later that year, I went on to work with the same team, this time as a producer on their independent feature film ‘The Rollover’.

The Weight of a Chip (Play)

Directed this theatrical drama in 2019 for Strive Theatre

Striving

Striving was initially conceived as part of the project Solo Sessions, curated and produced by Collaborative Artist Company. It was a wonderful experience with three other artists, presented within the parameters of a installation designed and created by David Francis Moore. The piece I wrote and performed, Striving, explored the objectification of women in advertising and women’s magazines.

From this performance I was invited to collaborate with artist Stephen Tadgh for the project “Who’s a Pretty…(Insert Gender Here)“, performed as part of Scene + Heard festival 2015, produced by Good Buzz Productions. This work aimed to challenge the societal obsession with appearance and the desire to be the perfect ‘man’ or ‘woman’.

Finally the project Striving evolved into an hour long scripted sketch comedy focusing on body positivity, the lunacy of diet and fitness crazes, media influence on body image and the strive for perfection. Directed by Steven Lafford, produced by Sound Out Theatre, it was performed as part of the Clonmel Junction Festival 2018.