Lineage by Sinéad McClure is a film poem about nature, climate change and habitat loss. Lineage features objects that have moved through the generations of McClure's own family, including her grandmother’s watch and father’s writing case. Lineage was developed using photogr
Heritage | Nature | Conservation
Brian Kirk began writing Red Line Haiku around 2013 while frequently traveling on the Red Line, part of Dublin's 'Luas' light rail system. Open in 2004, the Red Line passes through the city centre in an east-west direction, from The Point or Connolly Station to Saggart or Tallagh
Poetry | Haiku | Dublin
The focus of Marsh is Carrafeen salt marsh in West Cork, an intertidal zone where the sea meets the land between high and low tides. Twice a day in six hourly cycles the sea envelopes the land, diluting fresh water rivers and creating dynamic salty conditions that are nursery gro
Salt | Tides | Tidal wetlands
Virginia Gave Me Roses is a film poem based on a poem of the same name by poet and author Lani O’Hanlon. The piece explores impermanence, female relationships and the rituals that sustain us in times of sorrow, loss and joy. Filmed and edited by Fiona Aryan, the poem is recit
Women | Womanhood | Interpersonal relations
Based on a poem by poet and author Lani O’Hanlon, Going to the Well tells of a group of women seeking water in three wells. The wells are dry, but they find coins. The film is about the threat of climate change and how making money is more important than preserving the environmen
Environment (Art) | Water | Droughts
Originally published in 2000, Ian Duhig’s poem The Lammas Hireling explores superstition in 19th century rural Ireland. For more on The Lammas Hireling, see: https://poetryarchive.org/poem/lammas-hireling/ A decade later, the piece was adapted into a film poem by Paul Cas
19th century | Ireland | Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)
Cur Síos is a 59-second film poem by Brian Mackenwells. It started as an English-language poem in response to a poetry competition by the York Ghost Merchants, makers and sellers of small ghost figurines. Mackenwells then translated the work into Irish with the help of Peadar
Typewriter art | Ghosts | Stop-motion animation films
Recipe for the Bad Times, the Sad Surprise Times, the No Light Times is a film poem by Doireann Ní Ghríofa, featuring music by Linda Buckley. Ní Ghríofa's text from Recipe for the Bad Times, the Sad Surprise Times, the No Light Times was originally commissioned by Poetry Irela
Domestic fiction | Food