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.

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Sections have been published or are forthcoming in Banshee, Cyphers, Poetry Scotland and An Áitiúil Anthology.

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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.​