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Julie Morrissy

Poet and Activist, Dr. Julie Morrissy

Julie Morrissy
Thursday, April 14, 2022
6:00 pm (Eastern)

Julie Morrissy is the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland in the Decade of Centenaries programme. Her project Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution comprises a podcast series and poetry pamphlet, forthcoming in June 2022. She is a National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her debut poetry collection Where, the Mile End is published by Book*hug (Canada) and tall-lighthouse (UK). She is a recipient of the MAKE Theatre Residency Award, and the Arts Council ‘Next Generation’ Award. Morrissy earned her PhD in Creative Writing at Ulster University. She also holds degrees in literature, and law. Her work has been acquired for the OPW State Art Collection, exhibited in the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, and collected at The Burns Library at Boston College. www.juliemorrissy.com