Audio and Video Recordings

PEN International, Translation & Linguistic Rights Committee
The Video Poem Marathon in Indigenous and Minoritized Languages 2024
  • Ráth Maoláin was the first poem I wrote in Irish in 2016. Although Irish was my mother tongue English has become my father tongue. I wrote this poem in response to a pencil drawing of me by my husband, the painter, John Philip Murray in 1985 on Rathmullan Beach, County Donegal. The poem was selected on the Irish Longlist of the Frances Browne Poetry Competition in Irish 2021. The English text included with this video is an English version of the poem rather than a direct translation. This was the 100th poem of mine to be published.

Poetry Archive Now 2022

Sunday 6th March 2022, Lyric FM
  • Interview with Clair Cunningham for Lyric FM on the topic of Dorothea Herbert (c.1767-1829) listen back to Sublimer Wishes on Lyric FM at 6pm on Sunday 6th March 2022 produced by Claire Cunningham, Rockfinch Production.  Also included in this programme were Florence Mary Wilson (1874-1946), and Angela Greene (1936-1997).
Coming Home #115 recorded for Words Lightly Spoken podcast, Oct 2021 by Claire Cunningham, Rockfinch Productions.

Friday 26th June 2020, Letters with Wings Poetry Reading to mark United Nations International Day in support of Victims of Torture.

Sunday 17th May 2020 live on Facebook from 'Cultivating Voices Live Poetry Open Mic' hosted by Sandy Yannone and Elizabeth Ann.


Sunday 26th April 2020, 20:00 YouTube Live recording from home, hosted by Rozz and Simon Lewis of The Holding Cell

'The Colour Grey', recorded during the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020.

A recording by Bernadette Gallagher of the poem 'Goalkeepers' by Bernard O'Donoghue during the Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Poetry Festival 2018


Poetry Reading at Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, India Oct 2018
  • Link to recording on YouTube 
Irish Poetry Reading Archive, UCD Special Collections, James Joyce Library, University College Dublin. 

'Young Urchins' - First published in Issue #3 by Picaroon Poetry.
  • Link to video - recording of the author, Bernadette Gallagher, reading 'Young Urchins' at the Ó Bhéal Closed Mic during the Cork Winter Warmer Poetry Festival, November 2016.


'Shades' - First published in the 'Boyne Berries 1916' special edition journal in Spring 2016 [ISNN: 1649-9271]
  • link to video  recording of the author, Bernadette Gallagher,  reading 'Shades' at the launch of the Spring 2016 'Boyne Berries 1916' in Trim, Co. Meath on 31st March 2016.

'Seeds' and 'Doorway' - first published in Stanzas - Ekphrasia - August 2016 Chapbook
  • Video recording of the author, Bernadette Gallagher,  reading 'Seeds' and 'Doorway' at the launch of Stanzas Ekphrasia Chapbook at the Hook and Ladder, Limerick on 19th August 2016.

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