Forthcoming Appearances
Radacach! at the International Literature Festival Dublin. With Celia de Fréine, Caitríona Ní Chléirchín, and Ursula Ní Choill, Merrion Square Park-Le Fanu Tent, 18 May 2024
Play: “Certain Individual Women” presented by Fishamble. TU Shannon, Limerick City, 24 May 2024.
Is it a Poem? exhibition at Museum of Literature Ireland, February to July 2024
Readings, Exhibitions, Appearances, Reviews & Commentaries
2024
Cell-Cell Stanza-Stanza: A Conversation about Poetry, Cancer and Care with Dr Pinar Zorlutuna and Dr Julie Morrissy. University of Notre Dame, 17 April 2024
Closing Panel: Niamh McCann, someone decides, hawk or dove. The MAC, Belfast, 5 April 2024
“Certain Individual Women” at Script Club. Irish Repertory Theatre NYC, 20 March 2024.
Celebration of Radical! and Launch of Radacach! National Library of Ireland, 7 March 2024
Bunreacht Aloud: Durational Reading of Bunreacht na hÉireann, with Professor Maebh Harding. UCD Sutherland School of Law (Gardiner Atrium), 21 February 2024
Women and the Constitution Roundtable. University College Dublin, 13 February 2024
The Art of the Possible: the role of the arts in policy making. Irish Consulate of Chicago in partnership with University of Chicago International House, 31 January 2024
2023
Poetry Reading. Women’s History Association of Ireland AGM, Dec.
Radical! Walking Tour. Dublin Book Festival. Nov 2023
Art/Text Symposium from Cuala Press to the Contemporary. Trinity Long Room Hub, Oct 2023
The Annual Hibernian Lecture. University of Notre Dame, Sept 2023
Film Screening “Certain Individual Women”. Critical Legal Conference: Feminism, Law and Art, Durham University Law School, Sept 2023
MoLI First Fridays and Poetry As Commemoration. In-conversation with Nithy Kasa and Padraig Regan. Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin, Sept 2023
Poetry As Commemoration. Poetry reading and in-conversation with Stephen Sexton. Verbal Arts Derry, Aug 2023
MoLI First Fridays and Poetry As Commemoration. In-conversation with Bebe Ashley and Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi. Museum of Literature Ireland, Dublin, July 2023
Keynote Speaker: John Montague Memorial Conference. Sorbonne Nouvelle, June 2023
Speaker: Combatting Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime Workshop. Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, May 2023
Speaker: “Reimagining Europe from Its Peripheries”. Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame, April 2023
“Certain Individual Women”. Full film, directed by Julie Morrissy, produced by Alisha Doody, animation by Annick Counihan.HOAX Archive, April 2023 (ongoing)
Conference: Irish Poetry Beyond Regionalism and Nationalism Symposium. Museum of Literature Ireland, March 2023
Being Horizontal/Sínte. “Metre” (printed poem-artwork) and “Come In, Lie Down” (essay). Featured artists: Nora Heidorn & Lynne Kouassi, Ketty La Rocca, David McGovern, Julie Morrissy, and Harold Offeh. Curated by Nora Heidorn, Project Arts Centre, Feb-March
Speaker: Closing Event, Adrian Duncan’s Little Republics: Preparations and Elements, Askeaton Contemporary Arts and the Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin, March 2023
Film Screening and Q&A:“ Certain Individual Women”. Doing Feminist Legal Work, UCD Sutherland School of Law, Feb 2023
Reviewed: Irish Times, “Poetry reviews: Liquid Flesh; Was it for This?; London Nation; Radical!” by Martina Evans, Feb 2023
2022
Reading: 2022 at the National Library of Ireland, Dec 2022
Reading from Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution. Irish Studies Seminar. The Newberry, Chicago, Dec 2022
US Launch of Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution. University of Notre Dame, Department of English, Nov 2022
Creative Writing Series. University of Notre Dame, Oct 2022
Reading at University of Wyoming, Department of English, Oct 2022
“Poetry and Document”, with Bebe Ashley, Cherry Smyth, and Christodoulos Makris. Kildare Readers’ Festival, Oct 2022
Dromineer Nenagh Literary Festival 2022, Co. Tipperary, Oct 2022
"Julie Morrissy: Saying goodbye to Serena Williams is tied up with saying goodbye to my mother”.The Irish Times, Sept 2022
Sewanee Writers’ Conference, University of the South, Tennessee. July 2022
“Text as Material” w/ Gail McConnell. Belfast Book Festival, June 2022
Poetry Reading for Culture Club. Dublin City County Culture Company and the National Library of Ireland, May 2022
Poetry Day 2022 Showcase at the National Library of Ireland. WB Yeats Personal Library, Apr 2022
“Julie Morrissy on how poetry can bring us closer to the women of the revolution years”. The Irish Independent, Apr 2020
Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writer Series. Landini Center for Fine and Performing Arts, Indiana State University, Apr 2022
National Endowment for the Humanities Lecture. Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, April 2022
World Poetry Day Reading, Instagram Live ! National Library of Ireland, March 2022
Poetry Reading with Julie Morrissy.Who Do We Say We Are? Irish Art 1922 | 2022, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Feb 2022
Reading: Opening Reception.Who Do We Say We Are? Irish Art 1922 | 2022, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Feb 2022
2021
Review: Victoria Kennefick Eat or We Both Starve, Aoife Lyall Mother, Nature, Gaill McConnell The Sun is Open. Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 135, ed. Colette Bryce, Dec 2021
HALFTONE Print Fair. The Library Project, Temple Bar, Dublin, Nov-Dec 2021
Panelist: Launch of New Feminist Constitutions for Northern/Ireland. The Imperial Hotel, Cork, Nov 2021
Film Screening “Certain Individual Women” and conversation with Dr Julie Morrissy and Dr Julie Anne Rodgers. Ireland Canada University Foundation & the School of Irish Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, Nov 2021
“Certain Individual Women” Performance Film: Official Selection of the LA Independent Women Film Awards, Sept 2021
Online Film Screening | “Certain Individual Women”, Culture Night 2021 at the National Library of Ireland, NLI YouTube, Sept 2021
Poet-in-Residence Lunch-time Reading. National Library of Ireland, Instagram Live, Sept 2021
“Certain Individual Women” Performance Film: Official Selection of the Toronto Women’s International Film Festival, Aug 2021
Feature: Performances in All Directions. PHONICA Season, Hotel Magazine UK, June 2021
Invited Participant: Feminist Constitutions Workshop. Organised by Máiréad Enright, Catherine O’Rourke, Aoife O’Donoghue, and Liam Thornton, Durham University, June 2021
Commissioned Writer: FILE NOTE, Fire Station Artists Studios, Dublin, June 2021
Public Film Screening “Certain Individual Women”Performance Film.UCD Festival, May 2021
Panelist: International Literature Festival Dublin. Hold Open the Door: Introduced by Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and Summer Meline, May 2021
Launch of Performances in All Directions and “Certain Individual Women” Performance Film. In conversation with Dr Adam Hanna, UCD Foundation, May 2021
Presentation. Experimental Publishing Public Series, curated by Nathan O’Donnell, Maynooth University, May 2021
Panelist: ‘In Conversation with Rick O’Shea’. UCD Festival Preview, May 2021
Film Screening: “Certain Individual Women” . Biennial Conference of the Association of Canadian Studies Ireland, Queens University Belfast, May 2021
Review of Performances in All Directions: “Poetry Round-Up” by Martina Evans, Irish Times, March 2021
Poetry with Julie Morrissy and Iona Lee. Ireland-Scotland St Brigid’s Day Celebration 2021, Consulate General of Ireland in Edinburgh, Feb 2021
2020
Reading: 12 Days of Poems for Christmas. Curated by Jane Clarke and Roscommon Arts Centre, Dec 2020
Interview and reading from Hold Open the Door: Anthology from the Ireland Chair of Poetry, The Poetry Programme, RTÉ Radio 1, Rockfinch Productions, Dec 2020
Exhibition: “Positions Gendered Male in Bunreacht na hÉireann / 1937 Constitution of Ireland”. Vinyl installation. An Post Gallery, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts: The Law s a White Dog, curated by Sarah Browne, Nov-Dec 2020
Podcast: Episode 9: “Positions Gendered Male in Bunreacht na hÉireann / 1937 Constitution of Ireland”. Julie Morrissy and Máiréad Enright. TULCA Festival of Visual Arts podcast. Dec 2020
Review: “Doireann Ní Ghríofa A Ghost in the Throat”. Poetry Ireland Review, Issue 132, edited by Colette Bryce, Dec 2020
Poem-Poster: HALFTONE Print Fair 2020, The Library Project, Dublin, Oct-Dec 2020
Reading: ó bhéal Winter Warmer Poetry Festival, November 2020
Pamphlet: Performances in All Directions. Dublin Art Book Fair 2020, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Nov-Dec 2020
Presentation: “Citizenship and Public Space in Alice Rekab's Truth, Flags, Identity”. Citizenship: An Exploration in Law and the Humanities, organised by the Irish Network for Legal Humanities, Nov 2020
Transatlantic Reading, with Julie Morrissy, Stephen Sexton, and Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir. VERSeFest: Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival, Nov 2020
Presentation: “Scaling the Law: Poetry, Visual Art, and Visual Culture”. UCC Department of English Seminar Series, hosted by Dr Clíona Ó Gallchoir, University College Cork, Nov 2020
Discussion of “Certain Individual Women” by Dr. Adam Hanna, “Irish Poetry and the Law: Julie Morrissy, Elaine Feeney and the Struggle for Women’s Rights in Ireland”, The Honest Ulsterman, Oct 2020
Review: “Jane Clarke, Simon Lewis, Breda Wall Ryan”, Poetry Ireland Review, no. 131, ed. Colette Bryce, Aug 2020
“Poem in a Pandemic”, reading & discussion of Brenda Hillman, Unlaunched Books podcast, May 2020
“Julie Morrissy reads ‘The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me’ by Eavan Boland”, Poetry Day, April 2020
Reading: “National Poetry Month Celebration: Julie Morrissy”. French and English, Book*hug Press Blog, April 2020
Reading: “UCD Together: A Reading by Julie Morrissy”, UCD Foundation Alumni e-newsletter, April 2020
Review: Where, the Mile End: “Debut Triptych: Review of Julie Morrissy, Mary Jean Chan, Rachael Allen” by India Harris, Poetry Ireland Review , no. 130, April 2020
Public Lecture & Performance: “‘Extra helpful nerves between realities’: Creativity, Publishing and Performance”, University College Dublin, Feb 2020
Reading with Jane Clarke and Grace Wilentz, dlr Lexicon, Dublin, Jan 2020
2019
Featured: “Best New Poetry of 2019”, by John McAuliffe and Martina Evans, Irish Times Weekend Edition, Dec 2019
Reading and discussion of Where, the Mile End, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, Nov 2019
Reading: Stonecutter Press’s “Emerging Voices”, with Cathy Linh Che, Irish Arts Center, New York, Nov 2019
Reading: Favorite Poems, Celebration of Seamus Heaney’s 100 Poems, Irish Arts Center, New York, Nov 2019
Reading: Authors on Tour at Union Station, with Doyali Islam, Esad Babačić, Farah Heron, Samra Zafar and Kyoko Nakajima, 40th Anniversary Toronto International Festival of Authors, Oct 2019
Reading: Esad Babačić, Michelle Brown, Lorna Crozier, Jay MillAr, Julie Morrissy and Gavin Russell, 40th Anniversary Toronto International Festival of Authors, Oct 2019
Featured: UCD Connections “Newman Fellows Exceptional Minds”, Sept 2019
Featured: “Chapter & Verse: The Rise of Irish Female Poets”by Jessica Traynor, The Gloss Magazine, Sept 2019
Panelist: "‘Looking and Listening’: Movement, Space and Performance in Contemporary Irish Poetry”, Poetry By Design: A Reappraisal of Visual Poetics Symposium, University of Leeds, July 2019
Panelist: “Contemporary Irish Poetry”, Canadian Association for Irish Studies Conference: Irish Bodies and Irish Worlds, May 2019, Concordia University, Montréal
London/UK launch of Where, the Mile End, The Poetry Café, May 2019
Review of Where, the Mile End: "International Looms Large in New Poetry Collections” by John McAuliffe, Irish Times, May 2019
Review: Anamaria Crowe-Serrano, Ross Hattaway, Nicole Kocot, Liz McSkeane, Elin o’hara Slavik. Poetry Ireland Review, no. 127, ed. Eavan Boland, April 2019
Organiser and Chair: Keynote Poetry Reading with Dr Mary Jean Chan, AWPI, University College Dublin, April 2019
Chair: “Practice Makes Perfect: Roundtable on PhD in Creative Writing”, AWPI: The Writer’s Voice, University College Dublin, April 2019
Panelist: “Materialisms in Irish Poetry”, with Paul Perry, Kimberly Campanello & Mariah Whelan, Text/Sound/Performance: Making in Canadian Space, University College Dublin, April 2019
Performance: Law and Literature: The Irish Case, Dublin City University, April, 2019
Reading with Gregory Betts & Paul Perry, The International Bar, Dublin, April 2019
Miami launch of Where, the Mile End, with O, Miami and The Betsy Hotel, March 2019
Boston launch of Where, the Mile End, The American Conference for Irish Studies, Boston Park Plaza, March 2019
Toronto launch of Where, the Mile End, Knife | Fork | Book, March 2019
Reading: Launch of Canthius Issue 06. Happy Goat Coffee, Ottawa, March 2019
Ottawa launch of Where, the Mile End , The Age of Anxiety Conference, University of Ottawa, March 2019
Montréal launch of Where, the MileEnd, School of Canadian Irish Studies, Concordia University, March 2019
Dublin launch of Where, the Mile End, Poetry Ireland HQ, Dublin, Feb 2019
2018
Reading: Launch of ANGLE 1, The Devlin Hotel, Dec 2018
Performance: Phonica: Nine, Smock Alley Theatre, Nov 2018
Reading: Culture Night 2018 Seanad Tours, with Moya Cannon and Martina Evans, Leinster House, Dublin, Sept 2018
Reading: "Sunday Session", with Leah Umansky, and Tara Skurtu, Book Upstairs, Dublin, July 2018
Panelist: "Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon", American Conference for Irish Studies, University College Cork, June 2018
Reading: "Canadian Lines" with Kathleen McCracken and Catherine Graham, Crescent Arts Belfast, May 2018
Reading: O, Miami Poetry Festival, with Colette Bryce, April 2018
Review: Hannah Sullivan, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Emma McKervey. Poetry Ireland Review, no. 124, ed. Eavan Boland, April 2018
Reading with Liz Worth, Knife | Fork | Book, Toronto, April 2018
2017
Review of I Am Where, by Grace Wilentz, Poetry IrelandTrumpet, Issue 7, Dec 2017
Featured: "East meets west wee manna fir the body an the mind", review by Rab Wilson of reading at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, The National, Dec 2017
Reading with Christodoulos Makris & Rab Wilson, You Were Also There, Book Week Scotland, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Nov 2017
Reading with Terese Svoboda, Poetry Ireland, Sept 2017
Panelist: "Poetry After Europe" with Shirley Wong, Walt Hunter, Robert Stilling & Michael Dowdy, American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Utrecht University, July 2017
Reading: ACLA Offsite Poetry Reading, Cafe de Zaak, Utrecht, July 2017
Reading: Launch of Critical Bastards Magazine, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, June 2017
Reading: UCD Festival, University College Dublin, June 2017
Commentary: "Julie Morrissy on Eavan Boland", many gendered mothers, Canada, May 2017
Organiser and Reader: Cross-Atlantic Literary Series, Canada 150 Conference, Devitts' Pub, Dublin, April 2017
Reading: IAAS Annual Conference with Kathleen McCracken & Grace Wilentz, Ulster University, Belfast, April 2017
Reading: UCD presents National Poetry Day, University College Dublin, April 2017
Reading: "Woman to World", Bluestockings Bookstore, NYC, March 2017
Co-Chair & Panelist: Hybridity, Poetry & Social Change Seminar, 48th Annual NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, March 2017
Reading: Solas Nua, Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC, March 2017
Reading: "Poetry with Sarah Burgoyne, Jessi MacEachern, Julie Morrissy & Erin Robinsong", Librairie Drawn & Quarterly, Montréal, March 2017
2016
Reading: 'The Rising Generation', Dublin Book Festival, Smock Alley Theatre, Nov 2016
Reading: "Ireland @ IFOA", with Caitriona Crowe, Emma Donoghue, Paul Muldoon & Ciaran O'Rourke, International Festival of Authors, Oct2016
Reading: "Poetry Ireland @ IFOA", with Ciaran O'Rourke, International Festival of Authors, Oct2016
Reading: "Incertus," Opening Weekend of the Seamus Heaney HomePlace, Co. Derry, Sept 2016
Reading: The Stinging Fly Showcase, Culture Night, Irish Writers' Centre, Dublin, Sept 2016
Presentation: Writing Between The Lines – A Postgraduate Symposium Exploring Creative Writing as Research Methodology, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Sept 2016
Review of I Am Where, by Suzannah Evans, The North 56, 2016
Reading: gorse no. 6 launch, The Liquor Rooms, Dublin, Aug 2016
Reading: Ó'Bhéal Poetry Series with Stephen Sexton, The Long Valley Bar, Cork, June 2016
"In response to 'I Am Where'", by Camille Ralphs, Saboteur Showcase: Close Readings, The Missing Slate, Pakistan, May 2016
Shortlisted: Best Poetry Pamphlet, Saboteur Awards, May 2016
Reading: Bealtaine Festival, Book Upstairs, Dublin, May 2016
Reading: "Canada in Ireland", with Kathleen McCracken, Connie Voisine & Dimitra Xidous, ACSI Biennial Conference, Maynooth University, May 2016
Review of I Am Where by James O'Leary for Sabotage Reviews, March 2016
Reading: The Factory Reading Series, The Carleton Tavern, Ottawa, March 2016
Reading: New Writing Series, Toronto Metropolitan University, March 2016
Interview: Click-Here, CHUO FM, Ottawa, March 2016
Reading: "The Flash Series", NeMLA Convention, March 2016
Reading: Launch of some mark made, The Winding Stair Bookshop, Dublin, March 2016
Reading: Gregory O'Donoghue Prize-giving, Cork International Poetry Festival, Feb 2016
2015
Reading: The Poetry Programme, RTÉ Radio 1, Dec 2015
Launch: I Am Where, Eyewear 20/20 Pamphlet Series, McGrattan's Café Bar, Dublin, Dec 2015
Launch: I Am Where, Eyewear 20/20 Pamphlet Series, The Camden Eye, London, Nov 2015
Reading: Eyewear 20/20 Pamphlet Summer Launch, The Rugby Tavern, London, July 2015
Reading: Bloomsday Open House & Readings at Lilliput Press, Dublin, June 2015
Shortlisted: The Melita Hume Poetry Prize, May 2015
Reading & Interview: The Poetry Programme, RTÉ Radio 1, May 2015
Reading: Poetry Ireland Introductions Series, International Literature Festival Dublin, May 2015
Reading: Launch of Cyphers 79, Strokestown International Poetry Festival, Co. Roscommon, May 2015