We look forward to welcoming the creators and collaborators of State, In Relation. A fascinating and experimental artistic engagement with the Irish Constitution, State, In Relation examines it as a living text through the lens of literature across multiple disciplines including poetry, essay, fiction, visual writings and explorative non-fiction. This night will feature conversation and readings from Clare Bell, Oein DeBhairduin, Sonya Gildea, Annemarie Ní Churreáin, Nithy Kasa, and Susan Tomaselli.
All are welcome to attend and refreshments will be served.
Attendance is free but booking is essential.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
CLARE BELL is a designer and researcher who teaches at TU Dublin. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, she was recently awarded and International Society of Typographic Designers Certificate of Excellence (2024) for a project undertaken with Mark Porter, a former colleague at the Guardian newspaper. She has an ongoing collaborative practice with Nathan O’Donnell, making use of participatory and collective processes to produce publications and projects.
OEIN DEBHAIRDUIN is a tale-keeper who seeks to share Traveller voices, weaving old tales into modern narratives. Author of Weave, Why the Moon Travels (Skein Press), The Slug and the Snail (Skein Press and Little Island), and Twiggy Woman (Skein Press), his writing celebrates memory, imagination, and the enduring power of our shared cultural heritage.
SONYA GILDEA has published in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, Tolka, Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Howl, The Common, and Crann óg, with a pamphlet forthcoming with gorse. She is a Poetry Ireland Introductions poet; winner of the John McGahern Literature Award; the Cúirt International New Writer’s Award; and she was a dlr Emerging Writer in residence 2023/24.
NITHY KASA is a Congolese-Irish poet. Her work is featured in the Special Collections of University College Dublin. Her debut collection, Palm Wine Tapper and The Boy at Jericho (Doire Press) was named among the top poetry books of 2022 by the Irish Times and shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize 2023.
ANNEMARIE NÍ CHURREÁIN is a poet and librettist from the Doneal Gaeltacht. Her third collection, Hymn to All the Restless Girls, was released by the Gallery Press in 2025. She is the 2025 UCD/Arts Council Writer in Residence and the poetry editor at The Stinging Fly.
NATHAN O’DONNELL is a writer, curator, and one of the co-editors of PVA (Journal + Books). His work is grounded in the fields of contemporary art and experimental publishing. From 2018 to 2025, he was a curatorial Associate at IMMA. He was writer-in-residence at Maynooth University 2021-22; and a Samuel Beckett Creative Fellow at Trinity College Dublin in 2023. He teaches on the MA/MFA Art in the Contemporary World at NCAD and in 2026 he will curate the Dublin Art Book Fair for Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
SUSAN TOMASELLI is founder and editor of gorse journal . She has written for numerous publications, art catalogues, and anthologies. She was writer-in-residence at Maynooth University 2020/21, where she completed a novel-in-essays, Traces. She is currently working on Perspectives, an experimental aural portrait of Irish women artists.