Voices Of The Rising

In Episode 3 of Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution I am joined by Seán Hewitt for a conversation about his work as Poet-in-Residence at the Irish Queer Archive. In this episode we discuss some of the difficult things about working with archive, including violence against LGBTQ+ people and the murder of Declan Flynn in 1982. Seán Hewitt’s debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2020. It won The Laurel Prize in 2021, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, and a Dalkey Literary Award. In 2020, he was chosen by The Sunday Times as one of their "30 under 30" artists in Ireland. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, is forthcoming from Jonathan Cape in the UK and Penguin Press in the USA in July this year. He is a book critic for The Irish Times and teaches Modern British & Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin. The music for the Radical!: Women and the Irish Revolution is “Sa