Cork woman’s collection of poetry set for launch at Macroom Library
Bernadette Gallagher from Lissarda will launch ‘The Risen Tree’, her first Poetry Collection, at Macroom Library in the Briery Gap on Saturday, September 28th at 3.30pm. Photo by Sheila Fitzgerald
Award-winning writer Bernadette Gallagher from Lissarda will launch ‘The Risen Tree’, her first Poetry Collection, at Macroom Library in the Briery Gap on Saturday, September 28th. Bernadette, originally from Donegal, but living in Lissarda since 1986, will read some of her Poems at the event and the Book will be launched by Poet and Author Mary Noonan.
Bernadette invites her co-writers from the First Friday Writers Group at Macroom Library as well as neighbours, friends and everyone in the locality to join in this celebration which will begin at 3.30pm.
Bernadette will be heading to her home County of Donegal in October to read excerpts from The Risen Tree at the Frances Browne Literary Festival in Stranorlar. This event will be introduced by Annemarie Ní Churreáin and supported by Poetry Ireland. After spending a few days at home in Burtonport, she will be reading on the evening of Saturday19th October at Dillon’s Hotel, Letterkenny, as part of the Letterkenny Cathedral Quarter Literary Festival.
Bernadette has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and Cork County Council for her work. An essay by Bernadette on Dorothea Herbert (1767-1829) is published by Cork University Press in Irish Women Poets Rediscovered: Readings in poetry from the eighteenth–twentieth century edited by Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie. Dorothea’s aunt lived in Macroom Castle; her name was Helena (nee Herbert) married to Richard Hedge Eyre.
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‘The Risen Tree’ which was published earlier this year can be purchased online from Revival Press and from Bookshops across Ireland.
Bernadette extends her gratitude to Cork County Council Library & Arts Service for their continued support.
