Jukebox Tour Continues in Cork City

August 25th, 2022|

Poets Eibhlis Carcione, Gabriel Fitzmaurice, Deborah Oniah, Victoria Kennefick, & Thomas McCarthy with Lord Mayor of Cork City, Deirdre Forde at the launch of the Poetry as Commemoration Jukebox. Picture: Alison Miles /OSM

In the Media

Poetry Jukebox pops up in Limerick park . Live95FM, 17 May 2023.

New Poetry Jukebox Commemorates Irish History in The People’s Park, Limerick.ie, 17 May 2023.

New installation in Limerick park has people scratching their heads. Limerick Leader, 16 May 2023.

Museum commemorating 1916 Rising leader celebrates 10th anniversary Offaly Express, 4 May 2023.

Poetry as Commemoration participant, Anna O Laoghaire, discusses her poem ‘Sentinels’ on Tipp Mid West Radio. Listen at 38min 28 secs. 23 Jan 2023.

Civil War poem by Wexfordman Ned Culleton included in national collection in the James Joyce Library at UCD. Irish Independent. 10 Jan, 2023.

Poetry Programme: how poems deepen our understanding of the past. RTE.ie  4 Nov 2022.

Blood Pulled My Shoe Off: The Birth of the Free State in the Words of Maire Comerford. The Irish Times. 31 Oct. 2022.

The Irish Times Books Newsletter, 30 Sept. 2022.

Imagine Arts Festival Waterford, 25-30 Oct. 2022.

Sound, thanks, Cork Independent. 24 Aug. 2022.

Cork to host poetry jukebox to commemorate centenary of conflictsIrish Independent. 18 Aug. 2022.

Word on the street is Cork to get poetry jukebox. Irish Examiner. 12 Aug, 2022.

The Crescent Arts Centre to host Poetry as Commemoration Poetry Jukebox throughout Belfast Book Festival. 17 May, 2022.

Catherine Martin: Centenary commemorations seek to strengthen peace in Ireland. The Irish Times. 10 May, 2022.

Poetry as Commemoration Commissions. Poetry Ireland, 6 May 2022.

Poetry as Commemoration Commissions Announced. Irish Times Weekly Round up. 29. Apr. 2022.

New initiatives will bring poetry about commemoration to the fore. Irish Independent. 2 Sept, 2021.

‘Poetry as Commemoration’ – A new partnership for the Decade of Centenaries with the Irish Poetry Reading Archive at University College Dublin (UCD) Library. Gov.ie. 26 Aug, 2021.

‘Poetry as Commemoration’ – New partnership for Decade of Centenaries with Irish Poetry Reading Archive. UCD.ie. 26 Aug, 2021.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Minister Catherine Martin announce the 2022 Programme for the Decade of Centenaries. (PDF)

Poetry as Commemoration – an all island project. Artscouncil-ni.org. 26 Aug, 2021.