Just a quick update to note that the WHAI AGM for 2023 will take place on Thursday 7 December at 7pm on Zoom. All members are welcome. 

For our online winter gathering, we will follow the AGM at 7.30pm with a poetry reading by Julie Morrissey. Julie will talk about her practice of writing poetry based on Irish women’s history and will read a few of her poems. We are very much looking forward to this event! This is open to non-members as well as members. 

You can sign up for the event here to receive the Zoom link. 

Julie Morrissy was the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland from 2021-22. Her project Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution comprises a podcast series and pamphlet of poetry, photographs, maps, translation and research notes. Her awards include the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Newman Fellowship in Creativity, the MAKE Theatre Award, and the ‘Next Generation’ Award and Literature Bursary from the ArtsCouncil. Her poem-artworks have been exhibited at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, and at the Museum of Literature Ireland (forthcoming Jan. 2024). Morrissy holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Ulster University, and separate degrees in Literature (Toronto Metropolitan University), and Law (University College Dublin). 

We are also planning a social gathering in Dublin on 6 January, details to follow.