Poetry Reading with Michael O’Siadhail. Micheal O’Siadhail from Ireland is a significant poet and his work covers an impressive range of themes. A number of his poems have been commissioned and set to music for performance and broadcasting. He was awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute Prize for Poetry in 1982 and the Marten Toonder Prize for Literature in 1998. O’Siadhail has also been an academic speaker and writer, publishing important works on the Irish language, and lecturing at the Universities of Harvard, Yale, Iceland, and Trinity College Dublin. His most recent poetry publications include the highly acclaimed Collected Poems (2013) and the newly released One Crimson Thread (2015). 13.10.2015 This article was published on 2024-03-19