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admission free, reservation recommended
(space limited), in English
La Médiathèque rencontre...
Jaki McCarrick
Our current writer in residence Jaki McCarrick has published poetry in many reviews and journals. Her first play, The Mushroom Pickers, won the 2005 Scottish Drama Association's National Playwriting Competition, and premiered in London in 2006 and in New York in 2009. Leopoldville and Belfast Girls have also been produced to great critical acclaim. Her first collection of short stories The Scattering was published in March 2013.
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Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris 6ème
admission free, in English, French and Irish
Marché de la Poésie
Ireland : Country of Honour
 Marché de la Poésie is one of the major literary events of the year when hundreds of booksellers, publishers, writers, musicians and lovers of poetry occupy place Saint-Sulpice on the Left Bank of Paris. Ireland has been chosen as ‘country of honour’ this year and will be represented by Eavan Boland, Ciaran Carson, Eamon Grennan, Biddy Jenkinson, Medbh McGuckian, Maighréad Medbh, Paula Meehan, John Montague, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Joseph Woods. Together with readings and discussions, two new anthologies and two new collections in French translation will be launched. Two concerts - traditional music and jazz (see Music section) – will resound in this beautiful square in the centre of the 6ème arrondissement.
In conjunction with the Marché de la Poésie, a month-long series of poetry events is taking place in Paris and its outskirts. The CCI is organising three evenings for this Périphérie, the first of which is the launch of the Marché and its Périphérie at the Embassy of Ireland on 27 May in the presence of the great poet Paul Durcan (by invitation only). On 13 June, Seamus Heaney, Nobel Laureate, will give a special reading in the courtyard of the Centre Culturel Irlandais; on 27 June the final evening of the Périphérie will feature readings by Harry Clifton, Vona Groarke and Derek Mahon. (Details below)
Full details of the programme for the Marché and its Périphérie: www.poesie.evous.fr
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admission free (in the courtyard), seating not guaranteed, reservation recommended,
in English and French
In case of bad weather, check our website.
In conjunction with the
Périphérie du Marché de la Poésie
Open air event
Special evening with the poet
Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney is one of the greatest living poets in the English-speaking world. Born in Derry in 1939, he has published a dozen collections including Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Electric Light (2001), Human Chain (2011). The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 was awarded to Seamus Heaney “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”. A poet who is most beloved of Irish people, he will read in the courtyard of the Centre Culturel Irlandais which saw 800 people gather for its celebratory Poetry Hour last September.
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admission free (in the courtyard), reservation recommended, in English. Duration: approx. 60 min
In case of bad weather, check our website.
In conjunction with the Périphérie du Marché de la Poésie. Open air event
The Paris Bloomsday Group presents
Bloomsday in Paris
The Paris Bloomsday Group - Jean O’Sullivan, Declan McCavana and Michael Craig Gradwell - regularly perform readings and songs from James Joyce's work, with poet Derry O’Sullivan as MC. Their mission is to make Joyce accessible to all. Their Bloomsday 2013 programme, featuring guest artist Rosena Horan, will include excerpts from Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, in addition to poems both lyrical and satirical, and the music-hall and parlour songs favoured by Joyce. Bring a picnic and come in 1900 costume it the fancy takes you. Lyrics are provided so the audience can also put their vocal chords to work!
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admission free (in the courtyard),
seating not guaranteed, reservation recommended,
in English and French
In case of bad weather, check our website.
Marché de la Poésie :
Soirée de clôture
de la Périphérie
Open air event
The final magical evening of the Festival de la Périphérie in which Ireland was particularly honoured during the Marché de la Poésie will take place at the CCI. Poetry by Harry Clifton, Vona Groarke and Derek Mahon and sweet music will be followed by a buffet under the stars, sheltered by the enfolding wings of the historic old Irish College.
Further details will be available soon on this page.
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