Ciaran Carson in Ballycastle

Ciaran Carson is the Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University and the author of many books of poetry, prose and translation. His poetry collections include Belfast Confetti, which won The Irish Times Aer Lingus Award for Irish Poetry, and Breaking News, which won the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Other prizes he has won include the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Weidenfeld Translation prize. His most recent collection is Until Before After. He is a traditional flute player and has written extensively about traditional music. Deirdre Carson, ne Shannon, is regarded as one of the best traditional fiddle players of her generation. Reared near Antrim town, she first learned from her father Paddy, and subsequently from the older players in the South Antrim region and further afield. She has been playing music with Ciaran Carson for over thirty years.