Join us on Wednesday 7th August at The Whitehouse Bar, 52 O’Connell Street, Limerick at 7.30pm for our First Wednesday Series poetry reading and open-mic. Our special guest reader is Bernadette Gallagher whose debut collection The Risen Tree was published by Limerick’s Revival Press earlier this year!
Bernadette Gallagher was born by the sea in Donegal and lives inland on a hill in County Cork with a view to the Cork and Kerry mountains, working the land beside a small forest that she and her husband planted in the mid-1980s. Her poems have been published in various journals and anthologies. She has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and Cork County Council. She enjoys reading her poetry to live audiences whether in Cork at the Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Festival, Cork International Poetry Festival, The Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi or the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York.
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.
She has collaborated with painters, composers, and musicians.