Cead Isteach / Entry Permitted

Cead Isteach/Entry Permitted is part of UCD Press's The Poet's Chair series, publishing the public lectures of the Ireland Professors of Poetry.

The Ireland Chair of Poetry was established in 1998 following the award of the Nobel Prize of Literature to Seamus Heaney and is supported by Queen's University Belfast, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Counci 1/An Chomhairle Ealaion.

Other poets in the series include John Montague, Paul Durcan, Michael Longley, Harry Clifton and Paula Meehan.

In her volume of The Poet's Chair Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill discusses the importance of place in Irish literature and the need to preserve important sites of Irish literary activity, brings us on a turbulent Turkish adventure, and explores Ireland's rich folklore tradition.