About Paula Meehan

About Paula Meehan and her participation in Drawing on Joyce, an Olivier Cornet Gallery exhibition, part of the James Joyce Centre's 2018 Bloomsday Festival, Dublin, Ireland.

Paula Meehan was born in Dublin where she still lives. A playwright and poet, she has received many awards for her work. She has been Ireland Professor of Poetry, 2013 – 2016. Her public lectures from the Professorship, Imaginary Bonnets with Real Bees in Them, were published in 2016 by UCD Press. Geomantic, her latest collection of poems, was published by Dedalus Press, Dublin, in November of 2016.

Note on Work:

"I will show work Monto Karma that desires to colour the Monto area where my grandparents were born: Hannah Ralph on Lower Tyrone Street and Walter Meehan on Mabbot Street (now James Joyce Street), depicted in Ulysses as Nighttown. The images I have of their world are black and white (Darkest Dublin Collection) and I want to return their nurture with simple gestures that honour their colourful childhoods."
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