Irish poet Anne Casey
from Wide Open Air Exchange Hosted by Christine Gallagher
Dr Anne Casey is an internationally acclaimed poet from west Clare in Ireland. Throughout this conversation, Anne kindly reads and introduces several of her poems and shares insights from her academic research. Anne Casey's doctoral research was on 'The second-wave impact in Australia of the Great Irish Famine: reviving lost histories through poetics of resistance'. We hear about some of Anne's archival research and her own family history that evidence British colonial atrocities in Ireland. Anne's poetry also vividly takes us to her seaside hometown on the Atlantic coastline of west Clare, showing her strong connections to place and culture
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