In 2022, I spent some time with a group of artists thinking about Lady Gregory and WB Yeats’ play Kathleen (or Cathleen) ni Houlihan.

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The intended theatre production never happened.

 

Line Readings: Kathleen, Cathleen is a chapbook-length response to the voices in the play, the voices in the room and the conversations it triggered afterwards.​

 

Poems, or earlier versions, have been published or are forthcoming in Abridged (was it put the trouble on you), An Áitiúil Anthology (pulling the seams and trying), Banshee (Turning up the red side of the ground,), Cyphers (for a second at the door, then), Channel Magazine (Ireland, but money is good, too), Poetry Scotland (down the path? I did not), Quare Eire: An Anthology of Neo-Mythmaking (from beyond the world; What hopes have you to hold; night before my wedding; and to go walking with you. The fortune) and Swerve (back on the bargain and but stops for a moment on the threshold).

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The initial exploration of the text was supported by a 2022 Arts Council of Ireland theatre project award and the idea conceived during a 2023 Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Emerging Artist Bursary.​