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Kerry Arts and Human Rights Festival: The Standing Stone on Glanleam – Ancestral Voices and Human Rights Talk and Poetry Reading
Kerry Arts and Human Rights Festival: The Standing Stone on Glanleam – Ancestral Voices and Human Rights Talk and Poetry Reading
July 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm IST
Join artist Mary Moynihan for a poetry reading and thought-provoking talk on her poem The Standing Stone at Glanleam, exploring ancestral voices and how they continue to speak to us in the context of human rights
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Mary Moynihan, writer, director, creator of art and photography
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Join artist Mary Moynihan for a thought-provoking talk on her poem The Standing Stone at Glanleam, exploring ancestral voices and how they continue to speak to us in the context of human rights. The talk takes place at the Atlantic Villa, Knightstown. This event offers a unique opportunity to enjoy poetry inspired by local history and the connections between place, memory, ancestry, and human rights. Join us for a conversation on how memories and voices of those who came before us can still inspire and shape our lives today.
Attendees are kindly asked to park on the road outside the property.
Presented for the annual Kerry Arts + Human Rights Festival 18-19 July 2026
Information at 087 2214245 or admin@smashingtimes.ie
Speaker Biographies:
Mary Moynihan, MA, she/her, is an award-winning author of novels, plays, poetry and films, originally from Dublin, Ireland. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays, poetry and short film scripts and for creating inter-disciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival.
After raising four children, now all adults, and following her recovery from serious illness, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage, laughter, tragedy, happiness, love, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel series Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction, Mary’s characters are clever, fearless, vulnerable, crazy, and strong, looking for love, fun, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots, dramatic lives, lots of laughs, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love, happiness, creativity and meaning in life.
Mary pens a series of articles and Creative Musings on Arts, Creativity, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appears in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie
In her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children, hang out with friends and swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin GAA Gaelic football and hurling teams.
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