Colmcille 1500 at GNA

Today, our final Colmcille 1500 prize winner - this is Jakub Jelínek's joint-first place poem: Congratulations!

Now to our poetry competition winners. There are two joint-first place poets, and today we will enjoy the prize-winning entry of Jonáš Zach. Congratulations!

Our other joint-first prize winning essay was by Vojtěch Tesař - Congratulations!

And now for our joint-first prize winning essays. Firstly, here is Sára Vítková's - Congratulations!

Today we are sharing the other joint second-place winning essay, written by Alexandra Chytrá.

Starting today, we are sharing the prize-winners from the Colmcille 1500 competitions. Firstly, here is joint second-place Adam Černička's essay.

Congratulations to our Colmcille 1500 essay and poetry competition prize winners! We will be sharing each of their prize-winning entries over the next few days.

Two lovely new poems about Colmcille

The Oratory of Light - Video Poem 2021 To celebrate Poetry Day Ireland 2021, we have produced a video featuring two poems from 'The Oratory of Light', James Harpur's new collection of poems, inclu...

https://www.meathchronicle.ie/2021/03/12/colourful-projection-of-saint-colmcille-celebrates-monks-1500th-anniversary/

Colourful projection of Saint Colmcille celebrates monk’s 1,500th anniversary | Meath Chronicle Arts & Culture Ann Casey Published: March 12, 2021, 09:16 The Colmcille 1500 light-scape on the front wall of the Kells Municipal office Colourful projection of Saint Colmcille celebrates monk’s 1,500th anniversary A spectacular depiction of St Colmcille lit up Kells Town Hall as part of the Colmc...

https://www.ria.ie/news/library-focloir-stairiuil-na-gaeilge-coiste-leann-na-gaeilge-litriocht-na-gaeilge-agus-na

7 new artworks to celebrate Colm Cille’s 1500th anniversary The commissions are in the visual arts, music and literature and have been commissioned by the RIA with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs.

The deadline for the poetry competition is being extended until the end of April.

The Age of Lewis (Mary Montgomery, 1955)

In the ground the swelling wind
In the wind the sheltered sky
In the sky the shadowed waves
In the waves fertility

Your bank fell in the stream
The stream fell in the river
The river ran down the mountain
And the mountain lost its heartstone

Your summer was like your glory
And your countryside was green
Your people bathed in sunshine
It would do well to last, if well it lasts

And it would do well to stand, if well it stands

And it will stand
Lewis will
Lewis will stand its life cycle
Though the waves would yield up grass
And the fish swim through the ground

http://www.archipelago.org/vol7-3/18.htm