Our Gallery Goes . . . to Clifden Arts Festival with John FitzGerald and Alvy Carragher event is being held in memory of Michael Coady and Gerald Dawe.
John FitzGerald, born in Cork in 1962. He won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award in 2014, and his first collection, The Time Being (2021), was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Prize. The Gallery Press published, in 2023, his translation of Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire by Eileen O’Connell /The Lament for Art O’Leary which includes the Irish and, for the first time, Jack B Yeats’s monochrome drawings. His second collection, Long Distance, published in April 2024, reveals the deepening impression of a poet who is both chronicler of all that fades and passes.
Alvy Carragher grew up by the River Shannon in Galway and Tipperary, and has lived in Louisiana, Dublin, South Korea, and Canada before returning to Ireland. Her collections, Falling in Love with Broken Things (2016) and The Men I Keep Under My Bed (2021), were published by Salmon Poetry. She holds an MA in Writing from NUIG and received an Arts Council Literary Bursary. Her latest collection, What Remains the Same, was published by The Gallery Press in 2024.
