Writer in Residence 2OO5-
September ‘05– May 2006

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in partnership with The Institute of Art, Design and Technology (I.A.D.T.) and the Arts Council has nominated poet Peter Sirr to hold the post of Writer-in-Residence 2005 beginning at the end of September 2005.

Peter Sirr will hold this position for an eight-month period and will be attached to the Department of Humanities. He will undertake instructional and consultative activities to enrich the broader cultural development of the Institute and encourage cross-school activity and collaborative opportunities. Peter will hold a high profile in the Arts in the County with the endorsement and status of the residency being mutually beneficial to all parties.

Peter Sirr was born in 1960 and lives in Dublin where, until 2003, he was Director of the Irish Writers' Centre. Now a freelance writer and translator, he is currently editor of Poetry Ireland Review. The Gallery Press has published his poetry collections Marginal Zones (1984), Talk, Talk (1987), Ways of Falling (1991), The Ledger of Fruitful Exchange (1995) and Bring Everything (2000). This year the Gallery Press published Selected Poems simultaneously with a new collection, Nonetheless.

To keep updated on the events and activities of Peter Sirr's residency you can log onto http://petersirr.blogspot.com/

Writer in Residence 2OO4 -
September ‘04 – May 2005

The Institute of Art, Design and Technology (I.A.D.T.) in partnership with Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and the Arts Council has nominated Poet Caitríona O’Reilly to hold the post of Writer-in-Residence 2004 beginning on the 27th September 2004.

Caitríona O’Reilly

Caitríona O’Reilly will hold this position for an eight-month period and will be attached to the Department of Humanities. She will undertake instructional and consultative activities to enrich the broader cultural development of the Institute and encourage cross-school activity and collaborative opportunities. Caitríona will hold a high profile in the Arts in the County with the endorsement and status of the residency being mutually beneficial to all parties. She will be raising awareness of reading, appreciation and writing activities within the Institute and the wider community.

Caitríona O’Reilly was born in 1973 and grew up in Wicklow. She was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where she wrote a doctoral thesis on American poetry. Her first volume of poetry, The Nowhere Birds, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2001. It was short-listed for the 2001 Forward Best First Collection prize and was awarded the 2002 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. In 2003 O’Reilly held the Harper-Wood Studentship in English Literature from St. John’s College, Cambridge. She is also a widely published critic. A second collection of poetry is nearing completion.

The Airfield Trust Writer in Residence 2OO2

The Airfield Trust in partnership with Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and the Arts Council is delighted to announce the appointment of Siobhán Campbell as the first Writer-in-Residence at The Airfield Trust. The residency commenced in April, 2002 and will run until November. Siobhán will be developing various outreach programs, establishing contacts with the local community and liaising with the educational program at Airfield.

From the beginning of May, two non-fiction workshops are taking place over a six week period. Among the other Writer-in-Residence projects which will take place at Airfield, are workshops with primary school children who will be visiting Airfield, workshops in writing fiction and poetry, and a seminar for emerging writers is also planned.

Siobhán Campbell

Born in Dublin in 1962, Siobhán Campbell was educated at University College Dublin, where she returned in the 1990s to take a Master of Arts degree in Anglo-Irish literature. She began writing poetry as a teenager and was encouraged by publication in the Irish Press under the editorship of David Marcus. She has been widely published and anthologised and is represented in the major contemporary collections of Irish poetry. She has broadcast her work on BBC and RTE radio and has given readings in Ireland, the UK, Canada and the United States. While living in New York in the early nineties, she worked on her first book The Permanent Wave published by Blackstaff Press, Belfast in 1996. In New York she read at Sin É and at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. In Autumn '98 she was a guest reader at the International Writers Festival in Ottawa, Canada and at the Contemporary Art Fest in Glasgow, Scotland. The work in her second book, The Cold That Burns has been characterised by Paul Durcan as ‘passionately precise, precisely passionate’. Recent readings include the Cuirt Festival Galway and Wexford Arts Centre as well as a number on the west coast of the United States including being the guest reader at Menlo College Poetry Day and at the American Conference for Irish Studies West in Seattle.

For further information contact:
The Airfield Trust, Upper Kilmacud Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14
Tel.: (01) 2984301 E-mail: arts@airfield.ie Website: www.airfield.ie

Conor facilitated the first poet-in-residence scheme in the country. Conor was born in Newry. Northern Ireland in 1968. His first collection, The History of Rain (Gallery Press, 1993), won the Patrick Kavanagh award in 1993 and was short-listed for the Forward Best First Collection Prize in 1994. He has also received two bursaries in literature from the Arts Council of Ireland and a Rooney Prize Special Award. His recent poems have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times and The New Republic. He reviews regularly for the TLS and Poetry Ireland Review. His radio documentary on cricket Ireland, The Season, was broadcast in 1996 under the production of Dick Warner and has been repeated many times since. A further essay, "Jolly Good Shot Old Boy - Confessions of an Irish Cricketer", featured in a Book of Matches (New Island Books 1999, ed. George O' Brien). Conor O' Callaghan's second collection of poems, Seatown, appeared from Gallery press in March 1999, and from the Wake Forest University Press in the U.S in March of this year. He was writer-in-residence at University College, Dublin for 1999-2000.

Born in Cork in 1929 Patrick Galvin was Dun Laoghaire-Rathdowns first writer-in-residence. Poet, playwright and frequent broadcaster of his own work on RTE and BBC. He was educated at Presentation Brothers, Cork. He was awarded Lverhulme Fellowship in drama 1973 - 1977 and was resident dramatist at the Lyric Theatre (Belfast) 1973-1980. Patrick was writer-in-residence at East Midlands Arts (Nottingham) in 1981. His work has been recorded at The Library of Congress Washington, D.C 1981. He has given readings in Ireland, England, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, USA and Mexico. His plays have been staged at the abbey Theatre (Dublin), Citizens Theatre Glasgow, Young Vic (London) and at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast.