Máire Bradshaw Explained

Máire Bradshaw
Birth Date:1943
Birth Place:Limerick
Nationality:Irish
Known For:Poet, publisher

Máire Bradshaw (born 1943) is a writer, poet and publisher. Bradshaw was born in Limerick in 1943. She was educated in Laurel Hill convent before moving to Cork. There she got involved with the feminist movement. Bradshaw runs Bradshaw Books founded in 1985 as the Cork Women's Poetry Circle.[1] She has published Theo Dorgan and Dympna Dreyer amongst others.[2] Bradshaw is a poet and was commissioned in 1991 to write the poem to celebrate the freedom of the city of Cork given to Mary Robinson, the first female president of Ireland as well as reading the presidential poem during her inauguration.[3] Her work is also in a number of anthologies as well as collections of her own work.[4] [5] [6] [7] Bradshaw is also the director of Tig Fili, an organisation designed to provide workshops in art and poetry.[8] [9] [10] [11]

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  2. Web site: Final chapter for Bradshaw Books . Cork Independent . 2016-12-08 . 2020-05-07.
  3. Web site: O'Carroll . Sinead . Presidential poems: will Michael D quote himself during inauguration speech? . TheJournal.ie . 2020-05-07 . 2020-05-07.
  4. Web site: Table of Contents: Irish poetry now . 2020-05-07.
  5. Web site: Crimmins . Louise . Limerick Poets . Munster Literature Centre Home . 2019-01-31 . 2020-05-07.
  6. Book: Sage . L. . Sage . P.E.L.L. . Lorna . S. . Greer . G. . Showalter . E. . Thomson Gale (Firm) . The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English . Cambridge University Press . Gale virtual reference library . 1999 . 978-0-521-66813-2 . 2020-05-07 . 83.
  7. Book: Pierce, D. . Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century: A Reader . Cork University Press . 2000 . 978-1-85918-208-6 . 2020-05-07 . 1277.
  8. Web site: Children turn to poetry to escape from videos and computers . The Irish Times . 2013-03-21 . 2020-05-07.
  9. Web site: Small Poetry Presses in Ireland . Cordite Poetry Review . 2013-08-31 . 2020-05-07.
  10. Book: MacMonagle, N. . Windharp: Poems of Ireland since 1916 . Penguin Books Limited . 2015 . 978-1-84488-319-6 . 2020-05-07 . 325.
  11. Web site: Tributes by Members. – Seanad Éireann (21st Seanad) – Wednesday, 17 Sep 1997 – Houses of the Oireachtas . Houses of the Oireachtas website . 1997-09-17 . 2020-05-07.

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