Photograph by Peter Tomka

Julie Morrissy is an Irish poet, academic, critic, and activist. From 2021-2022, she was the first Poet-in-Residence at the National Library of Ireland . In her role she created and hosted the Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution podcast series. Her pamphlet of the same title is a collection of poetry, photographs, maps, translation, and research notes showcasing her work from the residency. It was published in July 2022, and digitised in the permanent collection of the National Library of Ireland along with her papers. A complete, collaborative Irish translation of the pamphlet titled Radacach! Mná agus Réabhlóid na hÉireann was published in 2023. From 2021-22, Morrissy was concurrently awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities, which she undertook at the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame). From 2019-2021, she was the inaugural John Pollard Newman Fellow in Creativity at University College Dublin (UCD). She is currently the first Law & Poetry Fellow at Sutherland School of Law at University College Dublin. As a transdisciplinary scholar, she works with academics in the fields of Law, Science, and History. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing at Ulster University, where she was Vice-Chancellor Research Scholar. She also has degrees in Creative Writing (UCD 2013), Literature (Toronto Metropolitan University 2014), and Law (UCD 2006).

Morrissy’s poetry-artworks have been exhibited at Project Arts Centre, Dublin, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, the Museum of Literature Ireland, and acquired for the Ireland State Art Collection. Her first collection Where, the Mile End (2019) is published by Book*hug (Canada) and tall-lighthouse (UK). Her awards include the MAKE Theatre Residency Award, the ‘Next Generation’ Artist Award and Literature Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland. She was a contributing participant in playwriting at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2022. She hosts a sporadic reading series in her home called Pizza Poetry Pub, which has featured international and local writers Dionne Irving, sam sax, Erin Robinsong, Ronan Kelly, and Eamon McGuinness. She also writes about art, and is a regular critic for Poetry Ireland Review.

Her poems are published in The Irish Times, The Manchester Review, bath magg, Winter Papers, gorseCyphersThe Stinging FlyPoetry Ireland Review, The North, and elsewhere. She was the featured Irish poet for the Consulate General of Chicago’s St Brigid’s Day Celebration 2024, the Ireland-Scotland Brigid’s Day Celebration 2021, and has represented Ireland at the O, Miami Festival, and the Toronto International Festival of Authors. She has been a delegate at PoetryFest NYC, Belfast Book Festival, Book Week Scotland, Dublin Book Festival, and the International Literature Festival Dublin. 

Inquiries to morrissyjt@gmail.com

 
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