Bilingual Poetry Reading with Áine Ní Ghlinn

​Join us in the Celtic Club's Members Bar at the Wild Geese Hotel for a special bilingual poetry reading with Áine Ní Ghlinn. Registration is free.

​*If you wish to dine beforehand in the Wild Geese Bistro downstairs ahead of the poetry reading, please click here to book a table.

​Áine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer, children’s writer, poet and journalist. Born in County Tipperary, she was Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Poet Laureate, 2020-2023, the first to write exclusively in Irish. She has written 39 books, including eight collections of poetry for adults and 23 for teenagers and young readers. Her most recent children’s novels are Hata Zú Mhamó and Daideo. She has won a range of awards, including a Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Fellowship and Children’s Books Ireland fiction award. She’s a four-time winner of the annual best Irish-language book for children and young readers.

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​BACKGROUND: During 2020-2023 An Bosca Leabharlainne, meaning The Library Box, delivered over 70,000 specially selected books to 1831 primary schools throughout Ireland, South and North. This was the flagship project of Áine Ní Ghlinn while she was Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Poet Laureate. For many pupils Irish has long been a subject they have to do. There had been guidance on reading in Irish provided to schools before, but this was the first project to exclusively focus on reading in Irish for pleasure and to provide the books and resources. Funded by Foras na Gaeilge and the Arts Council of Ireland, An Bosca Leabharlainne was supported by Children’s Books Ireland and included eleven artists in residence. The project was a success.