The Féile Filíochta will no longer be running in its previous format. However, DLR Libraries will be launching a Schools Poetry Competition in late 2009.
Details will be available on www.dlrcoco.ie/library as soon as they are confirmed.
Féile Filíochta Poem of Europe Award Winner
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Library Service is delighted to announce the winner of this year's Féile Filíochta International Poetry Competition. The winning entry "Higgiugiuk la Lappone" is from Italian poet Francesca Matteoni from Pistoia, Tuscany, who will receive the Poem of Europe Trophy, along with prize money of €6,000.
Matteoni, who has studied literature in Florence and the UK and recently published her first collection of poetry, Artico (Crocetti, 2005), is looking forward to returning to Ireland to receive her prize at an Awards Reading in Dún Laoghaire County Hall on Friday 4th April, when she, along with the other winners, will read their poems.
There were dozens of other winners in all ten of our language categories. You can now view the winners in each category and read their poem on this website.
Féile Filíochta Prizewinners 2007
The judges had a particularly hard task this year due to the quantity and quality of the entries and we would sincerely like to thank everybody who entered the competition this year.
The Féile Filíochta Awards Reading, on 4 April 7pm, is open to the public. For tickets to the event please contact DLR Libraries at libraries@dlrcoco.ie
>> Click here to view photos of the 18th Féile Filíochta award ceremony (2006)
