About this Event
Overview
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann is delighted to close our inaugural Eavan Boland weekend with readings from our Eavan Boland Awardees Alvy Carragher and Ali Choudary along with their mentors Professor John McAuliffe (Manchester) and Dr Rachael Hegarty (Dublin) .
This reading will feature each of our awardees reading from their forthcoming collections alongside some work by Eavan Boland with our mentors discussing the impact and connection of Eavan Boland’s work.
Alvy Carragher
Alvy Carragher is based in Dublin. She grew up in Galway and Tipperary and has lived in Louisiana, South Korea, and Canada. She is the author of three poetry collections, most recently What Remains the Same (The Gallery Press, 2024), shortlisted for the Farmgate National Poetry Award. She was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Eavan Boland Award (2025–2026) and has received the Irish Arts Council’s Literature Bursary Award (2022 and 2024). She is currently working on a fourth poetry collection and a book of short stories.
Ali Choudhary
Originally from Ireland, Ali Choudhary is a writer and artist. He is the recipient of the Eavan Boland Award by Poetry Ireland, among other honours, including being selected as a finalist for The Adroit Prize for Poetry and the Loraine Williams Poetry Prize. Ali's poems appear in The Adroit Journal, Protean Magazine, Shenandoah, and others.
Dr. Rachael Hegarty
Dr. Rachael Hegarty is a Dubliner, poet, educator and broadcaster. Her poetry collections have won awards and critical acclaim. Her fifth collection, Saints Alive – a Kinda Novena, launches in 2026. She’s been published in PIR, Cyphers, the Irish Times, Banshee and International Poetry Anthologies. Her kids say she, still, uses the F words too much; Finglas, Feminism and Feckin’ Poetry!
John McAuliffe
John McAuliffe has published seven books with The Gallery Press, including National Theatre, which was an Observer and Irish Times 'Book of the Year’ in 2024, The Kabul Olympics, which was a Guardian Poetry Book of the Month in June 2020 and a TLS and Irish Times 2020 Book of the Year, and The Way In (2015), which won the Michael Hartnett Award for Best Irish Collection that year. His Selected Poems was published in the US by Wake Forest in 2024. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Manchester, where is also the University's AVP for Culture. John is also Associate Publisher at Carcanet Press, which published Eavan Boland’s work for many decades, and where he has recently worked on Mist Becoming Rain: Selected Poems of Austin Clarke (June 26).
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
James Joyce Centre, 35 North Great George's Street, Dublin 1, Ireland
EUR 11.70
