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'''Joan McBreen''' (born
==Biography==
Joan McBreen was born in 1944.<ref>{{Cite web|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]].
Joan McBreen was born in Sligo in 1947. She got her education and qualified as a primary school teacher. In 1997 McBreen 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]] as well as been part of [[Clifden]] Arts Week, [[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. 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 web | title=Galway hospitals to take part in international literature festival | website=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 web | title=Joan McBreen papers, (Archival material, 1979) [WorldCat.org] | website=WorldCat.org | date=1999-02-22 | 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>▼
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.
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==Bibliography==
* ''The Wind Beyond the Wall'' (Brownsville: Story Line 1990), 52pp.
* ''A Walled Garden in Moylough'' (Galway: Salmon 1995)
* ''Winter in the Eye: New & Selected Poems'' (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Poetry 2003)
* ''Heather Island'' (Cliffs of Moher: Salmon Press 2009)
* ''Map and Atlas'' (Salmon Poetry, 2017)
* ''The White Ban/An Bhileog Bhán'' (Galway: Salmon Poetry 2001)
* ''The Watchful Heart - A New Generation of Irish Poets: Poems & Essays'' (Moher: Salmonpoetry 2009)
==Discography==
* ''The Long Light on the Land: Selected Poems'' (Castlebar: Ernest Lyons Prods. 2004)
==References and sources==
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== External links ==
* [https://rose.library.emory.edu/ Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library], Emory University: [http://pid.emory.edu/ark:/25593/8zmqz Joan McBreen papers,1979-2007]
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