Sunday 7th September – Friday 3rd October, 2025 – Olivier Cornet Gallery Stunning new work by Eoin MacLochlainn – highly evocative watercolours on wood depicting old fence posts, in a gallery run by Olivier Cornet who always has strong, subtly engaged work for us to see. Independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly opened the show.
Monday 28th July – Friday 1st August, 2025 – Keel, Achill Island, Co Mayo Stepping into the shoes of the late Macdara Woods and Kerry poet Paddy Bushe who delivered these daily 4-hour workshops for years. A great week of writing, discussion and fun.
Friday July 25th, 2025 @ 7pm There’s a very nice review of Naming Love by Ciarán O’Rourke in this new issue of Skylight 47. I look forward to meeting other featured poets online.
June 27th to July 19th, 2025 – Taylor Galleries, Kildare Street, Dublin
Opening Thursday June 26th, 2025 It’s a huge honour that Eamonn Maxwell, curator of this exhibition, has chosen a line from one of my poems for the show which runs until July 19th
OnSight 2024/25 – Museum of Country Life, Turlough Park, Castlebar
Opened Thursday May 1st, 2025 : Poetry Day Explore objects from the Irish Folklife Collection at the Museum of Country Life in Castlebar, through the poetry of Martina Evans, Sean Borodale and myself. Silent Objects / Spoken Lives
Saturday May 3rd, 2025 – St Thomas’ Church, Dugort
You can watch the full evening’s event combining traditional music with a choice of Paul Durcan’s poems, selected and read by Michael O’Loughlin, Dermot Bolger, Sheila McHugh and myself. Paul Durcan – 80 at 80 | Youtube
Delighted to have been invited by Ciaran O´Rourke to write this essay for his excellent Ragpicker website. In it I look at writer´s block in these times of war and worse, find inspiration in a late aunt´s life and take a look at the existential danger AI holds for human langauge. A call to arms…
