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Demonstrate your Poetic Prowess...

Join us for a lively afternoon of poetry, song and story. Participate in the 'Open Mic' where prize money will be awarded for the best performed original poem and the best performed Hartnett poem. Prize money of €300 for the Viva Voce winner in the original poem category and €100 for best read Hartnett Poem.

Viva Voce adjudicating panel: Eileen Sheehan, John Cussen & Clairr O'Connor.

Venue: Ned Lynch's, The Square, then onto Cartlidge's Pub, Maiden Street.
Bí Linn agus Fáilte / All Welcome

Viva Voce 2011 Winners

2011 marked the second year of the Michael Hartnett Viva Voce competition. It was a very lively afternoon with a healthy interest in the original poem category and in the best performed Hartnett poem category. Noel King from Tralee was selected as the winner in the original poem category for his poem 'The Statistics and I.' The announcement of the joint winners of the best read Hartnett poem was greeted with great applause when Newcastle West locals Margaret Cahill and Sean Kelly shared the 'necklace of wrens'. Margaret read 'On those who stole my cat a curse' and Sean read 'The Maiden Street Ballad'

Open Competition Winner: Noel King

View Noel's winning poem 'The Statistics and I' here

Hartnett Competition Winner: Margaret Cahill and Sean Kelly.

Hartnett Viva Voce Open Competition Winner 2011 Noel King reads his winning poem

Viva Voce Open Competition Winner 2011 Noel King reads his winning poem

Joint Hartnett Competition winners 2011 Sean Kelly and Margaret Cahill

Viva Voce 2010 Winners

Open Competition Winner: Mike Gallagher

View Mike's winning poem 'Stick on Stone' here

Hartnett Competition Winner: Louis Mulcahy

Hartnett Viva Voce Winner in the Open Competition Mike Gallagher reads his winning poem

Hartnett Viva Voce Winner in the 'Hartnett Competition Louis Mulcahy wearing his necklet of wrens reads the winning poem

Festival News

12th August - 'Hartnett Unveiled' a montage of footage from the unveling of Hartnett's statue has been added to the other media page.

27th May - The Éigse Michael Hartnett 2011 picture galleries are now available.

16th May - A sublime performance of Hartnett's Silebius in Silence at this years Éigse is now available in the 2011 gallery as a video.

9th May - Images of events at Éigse Michael Hartnett 2011 have been added to the gallery.

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Theo Dorgan recites a poem at Éigse Michael Hartnett 2011

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