Northern Irish Poetry
Celebrating the rich literary history of Northern Ireland and the steady stream of literary greatness that continues to emerge from the region to this day.
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Alice McCullough
Reads 'Bedtime Story'
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Raquel McKee
Reads 'The Seed of Freedom'
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Sinéad Morrissey
Reads 'The Millihelen'
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Michael Longley
Reads 'Ceasefire'
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Sinéad Morrissey and Raquel McKee
On a Favourite Northern Irish Author
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Louis MacNeice
'Carrickfergus', read by Ian McElhinney
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Michael Longley
On a Favourite Northern Irish Poet
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Cecil Frances Alexander
'There is a Green Hill', read by Frances Tomelty
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James Orr
'To the Potatoe', read by Ian McElhinney
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Seamas Dall Maccuarta
An Lon Dubh Baite’, read and translated by Paul Muldoon
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Frances Tomelty
On a Favourite Northern Irish Author
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Paul Muldoon
On a Favourite Northern Irish Poet
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