Poetry Reading with Anne Fitzgerald

Name: Poetry Reading with Anne Fitzgerald
Start: 2025-09-22T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-22T20:00:00+01:00
Location: 16-22 Queen Street, DG1 2JF Dumfries, United Kingdom

Schedule

Mon Sep 22 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

16-22 Queen Street, DG1 2JF Dumfries, United Kingdom | Dumfries, SC

An evening of Poetry Reading at The Yellow Door, with Irish poet Anne Fitzgerald. Including readings from Anne's recently published work "Not to Scale", a response to the Irish Government’s Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes final report, published on 30th October, 2020.
This long poem introduces us to architect, and designer of religious institutions, Ralph Byrne. It revisits Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and politician Éamon de Valera’s architecture of containment, pertaining to illegitimacy, incarceration, waywardness and the adoption culture. Underpinned by legislation such as the Carrigan Report (1931), the Dance Hall Act (1935) and the Children (Amendment) Act (1957), it ensured that censorship and religion thrived – the remnants of which still exist in twenty-first century Éire.
Related poems explore the plight of an unmarried mother in ‘Granard, Co. Longford’ and of children born out of wedlock in ‘Climbing Machu Picchu’, while the poem ‘Dinner Dance, 1946’ pays homage to Licensed Vintners.
https://www.fortyfootpress.ie/anne-fitzgerald.html
All are welcome, as ever - but please note that space and seating is limited, due to the small size of the gallery.
This is a free event. There will be a bowl for donations, which would be gratefully accepted to cover the cost of refreshments, and to support the Yellow Door Group.