Recent Events
Irish Evening at Manhattanville College
3.4.08
Please join us Wedneday March 5 at 7:00 p.m. for an evening of Irish themed entertainment in The Little Theatre.
The featured event is a poetry reading by Micheal O'Siadhail.
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Micheal O'Siadhail's Biography
Micheal O'Siadhail was born in 1947. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Oslo. A full-time writer, he has published ten collections of poetry. He was awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute prize for poetry in 1982 and in 1998 the Marten Toonder prize for Literature. He has been a lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and a professor at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Among his many academic works are Learning Irish (Yale University Press 1988) and Modern Irish (Cambridge University Press 1989). He was a member of the Arts Council of the Republic of Ireland (1988-93) and of the Advisory Committee on Cultural Relations (1989 -97), a founding member of Aosdána (Academy of distinguished Irish artists), and a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review. He was the founding chairman of ILE (Ireland Literature Exchange).