Please join the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies and the Creative Writing Program in celebrating Lá Fhéile Bríde/St. Brigid's Day 2026 with a reading by visiting poet Annemarie Ní Churreáin! Book sales and a reception will follow the reading.
About Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht in north-west Ireland. Her latest book is Hymn to All the Restless Girls (The Gallery Press, 2025). Ní Churreáin is a former literary fellow of Akademie Schloss Solitude (GR). Her awards include the Irish Arts Council’s Next Generation Artist Award, The Markievicz Award, The Kavanagh Fellowship and a Hawthornden Foundation (NYC) Residency Award. As a librettist she is currently working on The Curing Line, a new Straymaker opera which has been awarded The Fedora Prize. Ní Churreáin is the poetry editor at The Stinging Fly Magazine.
About Hymn to All the Restless Girls
Celebrating the rebel spirit of the restless girl, sometimes known as a troublemaker but valued as a truth-teller, Hymn to All the Restless Girls offers prayers of defiance, howls of protest and lyric flights. Poems with the force of charms cast their gaze in all directions as they castigate the history of the Irish State (the ‘Free’ State) and the Catholic Church and find ways to thrive beyond cruel experience. Folklore, including superstitions, Irish words and the atmosphere of rural life imbue poems of empathy for the ‘girls in trouble, sinful girls, the fallen’ and emigrants forced to leave. Taking bearings from the ancient art of fiachairecht, the practice of looking to ravens for omens and prophecy, this is a handbook of care and healing and, ultimately, reclamation.
Originally published at irishstudies.nd.edu.