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Cormac Mac Gearailt is a bilingual spoken word poet, performer, freelance journalist, and creative writing facilitator based in Dublin, but with deep roots in West Kerry. He writes in the both the English and Irish languages. He was the 2024 All-Ireland Slam Champion and 2024 UNESCO Slamovision Champion. Cormac's spoken word poetry is delivered in a unique, embodied style, making use of distinct rhythms and tightly packed rhymes, as well as physical expressions and movement in order to deliver hard-hitting emotionally resonant pieces. He writes about urban isolation and loneliness, language, nature, and heritage loss, addiction, beauty in the natural world, love, death and everything in between.
As a freelance journalist, Cormac has written a number of important articles and carried out multiple investigations in the areas of housing, homelessness and the environment. In 2024, he published an in-depth investigation into the 1979 Glen of Imaal explosion which left three children dead and injured several others on a Defence Forces firing range.
He also works as a creative writing facilitator in the Irish Writers' Centre and has taught in schools, prisons, at festivals, and with various groups across Ireland.
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Dermot Sullivan
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