Celebrate Irish American Heritage Month with the Irish American Heritage Museum and The NYS Writers Institute as we host an evening with Pulitzer-prize winning poet, Paul Muldoon, as the poet discusses the inspiration of his work, his love of language, and what moves him today.

7 p.m. Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Irish American Heritage Museum
21 Quackenbush Square
Albany NY 12207

Described by the Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War," Muldoon was born in 1951 in Portadown, County Armagh, and was raised near The Moy, in Northern Ireland. His mother was a schoolteacher and his father a farm laborer and market gardener. Muldoon is one of the Northern Irish poets - including Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, and Derek Mahon - who gained prominence in the 1960s and 1970s.

He is the author of more than 30 collections. In November 2022, Irish President Michael Higgins named Muldoon the ninth “Ireland Professor of Poetry,” an honor bestowed jointly by universities and cultural organizations in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland - and a role akin to “Poet Laureate” for all of Ireland.

This event will be held in person and will stream on the Irish American Heritage Museum YouTube channel.