Anne Le Marquand Hartigan
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Anne Le Marquand Hartigan is an Irish poet, playwright and painter.
Personal life[]
Hartigan trained as a painter at Reading University, England. She returned to Co. Louth, Ireland, in 1962 with her husband Tim Hartigan where they farmed and reared their six children. She now lives in Dublin.[citation needed]
Poetry[]
Hartigan has published seven collections of poetry:[1] Unsweet Dreams (Salmon Poetry, 2011),[2] To Keep The Light Burning: Reflections in Times of Loss (Salmon Poetry, 2008);[3] Nourishment (Salmon Poetry, 2005);[4] Immortal Sins (Salmon Poetry, 1993);[5] the award-winning long poem with Anne's drawings, Now is a Moveable Feast (Salmon Poetry, 1991);[6] Return Single (Beaver Row Press, 1986);[7] Long Tongue (Beaver Row Press, 1982).[8]
Theatre[]
Hartigan's theatre piece Beds [9] was first performed at the Damer Theatre in 1982 as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Hartigan's full length tragi-comedy I do like to be beside the seaside is set in an old peoples home.[10] Hartigan won the Mobil Prize for Playwriting for her play The Secret Game (Chiswick books, 2014)[11] in 1995. In Other Worlds (2003) was commissioned and performed by Ohio University, USA, then performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and in New Zealand. Jersey Lilies [12][13] was performed at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Dublin 1996, where Hartigan acted and directed with Robert Gordon. La Corbiere (Carysfort Press, 2001)[14][15] was performed at the Project Theatre as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival in 1989 and has since been performed in Beirut, Lebanon in 2004 and by Solas Nua Theatre Company in Washington DC, 2006.[16]
Prose[]
Hartigan's prose work includes Clearing The Space: A Why of Writing (Salmon, 1996).[17]
References[]
- ^ http://www.poetryireland.ie/education/writers-directory/anne-le-marquand-hartigan
- ^ http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=244&a=109
- ^ http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=32&a=109
- ^ http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=110&a=109
- ^ http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=109&a=109
- ^ http://www.annehartigan.ie/Poetry.htm#moveable_feast
- ^ http://www.annehartigan.ie/Poetry.htm#return_single
- ^ http://www.annehartigan.ie/Poetry.htm#long_tongue
- ^ http://www.annehartigan.ie/Theatre.htm#beds
- ^ http://digitalcommons.colby.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2849&context=cq
- ^ http://www.chiswickbooks.com/books/
- ^ https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/a-woman-s-take-1.88999
- ^ http://www.annehartigan.ie/Theatre.htm#jerseylilies
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ http://www.irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=1182
- ^ http://www.annehartigan.ie/Theatre.htm
- ^ http://www.poetryireland.ie/education/writers-directory/anne-le-marquand-hartigan
External links[]
- 21st-century Irish poets
- 21st-century Irish writers
- Living people
- Irish women poets
- Irish women dramatists and playwrights
- 21st-century Irish women writers
- Alumni of the University of Reading