In May 2025 dlr Libraries, the Global Brain Health Institute and Creative Ireland Creative Health & Wellbeing programme delivered another session of talks and discussion around brain health.
Curated by Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health, Karen Meenan and Mike Hanrahan, this day-long event focused on dementia care, featuring medical professionals, advocates, writers and musicians, as well as voices from caregivers and people living with dementia.
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In May 2025 dlr Libraries, the Global Brain Health Institute and Creative Ireland Creative Health & Wellbeing programme delivered another session of talks and discussion around brain health.
Curated by Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health, Karen Meenan and Mike Hanrahan, this day-long event focused on dementia care, featuring medical professionals, advocates, writers and musicians, as well as voices from caregivers and people living with dementia.
As part of Poetry Day Ireland 2024, we came together to celebrate the life and work of poet Eavan Boland, who died in 2020.
A selection of invited writers read their favourite of Eavan's poems, and shared a memory of their connection with her. There was also music, contributing to what was a friendly and inclusive evening to commemorate the beloved poet.
MC: Evelyn Conlon
Readers:
David Butler - Mise Éire
Mary Rose Callaghan - An Irish Childhood in England:1951
Ella Barry - Legends (for Eavan Boland)
Susan Connolly - The Lost Land
Evelyn Conlon - The Grape Pickers
Katie Donovan - The Pomegranate
Anne Fitzgerald - That the Science of Cartography is Limited
Catherine Phil MacCarthy - The Journey
Mary Milne - In Our Own Country
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin - The Oral Tradition
Mary O'Donnell - A Woman Painted on a Leaf
Gerard Smyth - Unheroic
Louise C Callaghan - Margin
Joseph Woods - Quarantine
Máiride Woods - Love
Sarah Casey - Eviction
Musicians:
Róisín Ward Morrow & Breifne Holohan - The Wounded Hussar and Cailín as Contae Lú
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In May 2025 dlr Libraries, the Global Brain Health Institute and Creative Ireland Creative Health & Wellbeing programme delivered another session of talks and discussion around brain health.
Curated by Atlantic Fellows for Equity in Brain Health, Karen Meenan and Mike Hanrahan, this day-long event focused on dementia care, featuring medical professionals, advocates, writers and musicians, as well as voices from caregivers and people living with dementia.
