Congratulations to Luke Dolan, the Senior Category and Overall Winner of the Poetry Aloud Competition 2022! Please click on the following link to hear Luke being interviewed by David Nevin of Galway Bay FM.
Poetry Aloud Finalists
Congratulations to Davóg O’Flanagan (TY) and Luke Dolan (Fifth Year) on qualifying for the final of Poetry Aloud, a poetry speaking competition organised by Poetry Ireland and the National Library of Ireland.
Poetry Aloud
Well done to Amy Ward, Kate Fahey, Rachel Long, Shannon McHugh and Mary Duignan who recently took part in the Poetry Aloud competition. The girls performed very well and look forward to competing again next year.
Poetry Aloud Finalist
Well done to Luke Dolan who is now a finalist in the Poetry Aloud competition in December. Maith thú!
Peotry Aloud
Congratulations to Luke Dolan and Harry Heffernan who competed in the junior section of the Poetry Aloud heats in Galway recently. Luke made it through to the semifinals in Dublin next month. Well done Luke!
Poetry Day Ireland 2018
Celebrating Poetry Day In Ireland
A First Year poetry recitation was held recently to celebrate Poetry Day Ireland. All students had to recite their favourite poem and prize winners on the day were Katie Raftery, Aoibhe Brennan and Jenna Marville.
Poetry Aloud Finalist 2017
Deirdre Croghan pictured here receiving her poetry aloud certificate.
Poetry Aloud
Well done to Amy Ward, Kate Fahey, Rachel Long, Shannon McHugh and Mary Duignan who recently took part in the Poetry Aloud competition. The girls performed very well and look forward to competing again next year.
Poetry Aloud 2015
Well done to all students who took part in the regional heats of Poetry Aloud, a poetry speaking competition organised by Poetry Ireland and the National Library of Ireland.
Congratulations to Tara Brady (Second Year) and Mary Duignan, (Fifth Year) who have qualified for the semi-final of this competition.
We were delighted that a Third Year student from Glenamaddy Community School was a prize winner in the Teaching English Magazine’s National Poetry Competition.
Barrie Cunningham’s poem, What is a Bull? was highly commended and was one of twenty-one from over three thousand entries to receive a prize. His poem was also published in the winter 2011 edition of the Teaching English Magazine.
What is.....................a Bull?
( Modelled on “What Is.......the Sun?” by Wes Magee)
The Bull is a million hormones
bellowing to get out.
It is a tonne of muscle
waiting to be flexed
It is four hooves
Pawing soft ground
It is two evil eyes
staring back at me
It is a mad maniac
Longing to be free
Barrie Cunningham
