Dublin poet Catherine Phil MacCarthy wins O'Shaughnessy Award

March 29, 2014 at 7:00PM
Catherine Phil MacCarthy
Catherine Phil MacCarthy (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

The 18th O'Shaugh­­nessy Award for Poetry will go to Catherine Phil MacCarthy, a poet from Dublin. The prize, which carries a $5,000 honorarium, is presented to an Irish poet each spring by the University of St. Thomas Center for Irish Studies.

MacCarthy has written four collections of po­etry and a novel. She has received the Fish International Poetry Prize, and her first book was a finalist for the Patrick Kavanagh Award.

She will be in conversation with Minneapolis poet Matt Rasmussen at 7 p.m. April 8 at the Merriam Park Library in St. Paul, and she will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. April 11 at the John R. Roach Center for the Liberal Arts at St. Thomas.

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