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{{short description|Irish poet}}

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| birth_date = 19471944

| birth_place = Sligo

'''Joan McBreen''' (born 19471944), is an Irish poet. Her work has been translated into many languages and appears in a number of anthologies.

Joan McBreen was born in Sligo1944.<ref>{{Cite in 1947web|url=https://findingaids.library.emory.edu/documents/mcbreen1088/|title=Joan McBreen papers|date=2 April 2008}}</ref> She qualified as a primary school teacher, and in 1997 was awarded an MA from [[University College, Dublin]].

McBreen is involved with a number of literary festivals in Ireland. She has assisted at [[W. B. Yeats|Yeats International Summer School]] and has been part of [[Clifden]] Arts Week, the [[Cúirt International Festival of Literature]], which is held in [[Galway]], and [[Listowel]] Writers’ Week. Since 2007 McBreen has been a Literary Advisor and Co-ordinator of the [[Oliver St. John Gogarty]] Literary Festival. She has also traveled to give readings and lectures in Illinois, Massachusetts, Georgia, Kentucky, Nebraska, Iowa, Alabama, Minnesota and Missouri.

McBreen lives in both Tuam and Renvyle, Co.County Galway.<ref name="Ricorso">{{cite web | title=Untitled Document | website=Ricorso | url=http://www.ricorso.net/rx/az-data/authors/Mc/McBreen_J/life.htm | access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref><ref name="Joan McBreen 2013">{{cite web | title=The White Page / An Bhileog Bhán | website=Joan McBreen | date=2013-11-30 | url=https://joanmcbreen.com/team.html | access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref><ref name="Catalogue">{{cite web | title=Holdings: The white page : | website=Catalogue | url=http://catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000274592 | access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=71&a=71|title=Winter in the Eye: New & Selected Poems}}</ref><ref name="The Irish Times 2013">{{cite webnews | title=Galway hospitals to take part in international literature festival | websitenewspaper=The Irish Times | date=2013-03-21 | url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/health/galway-hospitals-to-take-part-in-international-literature-festival-1.431359 | access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref><ref name="WorldCat.org 1999">{{cite webbook | title=Joan McBreen papers, (Archival material, 1979) &#91;WorldCat.org&#93; | websitevia=WorldCat.org | date=1999-02-22 | oclc=213387762 | url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/joan-mcbreen-papers/oclc/213387762 | access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref><ref name="Poetry Ireland">{{cite web | title=The Taste of Strawberries by Joan McBreen | website=Poetry Ireland | url=https://www.poetryireland.ie/publications/poetry-ireland-review/online-archive/view/the-taste-of-strawberries | access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref><ref name="Wellesley College 2018">{{cite web | title=Joan McBreen Poetry Reading and Reception | website=Wellesley College | date=2018-10-18 | url=http://www.wellesley.edu/events/node/158671 | access-date=2019-10-11}}</ref>