Live Encounters Publishing proudly announces the release of its second ebook –Where the Sunbird sings by Eileen Casey. Ebook design by Mark Ulyseas. January 20, 2026. You can also read the book here on Live Encounters and download pdf click here.
Eileen Casey is originally from County Offaly, now based in South Dublin. Casey’s poetry and prose are published in magazines and journals including The Irish Times, Ireland of the Welcomes, Crannog, The Stinging Fly, among others. Her work is also included in anthologies by Dedalus Poetry, Faber & Faber, The Nordic Irish Studies Journal, New Island, Salmon Poetry, The Ulster Tatler,among others.
Awards include: A Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Literary Award (Emerging Fiction), The Oliver Goldsmith International Poetry Prize, and a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship (Poetry), among others. She is author of chapbooks, poetry collections, short stories, prose, (Arlen House, New Island). ‘The Black and Tan Raid on Clontyglass,’ commissioned by County Laois, Culture Ireland, debuted in Mountmellick Community Arts Theatre (2025), ably acted by the Ballyfin Players.
‘Treasure’ (Peatslandgathering) features a short film of Casey’s bog poetry (awarded by Culture Ireland, County Offaly). ‘Peat’ and ‘Bog Wish’ were commissioned by composer Fiona Linnane and featured during Longford Lights (2025) and Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival (2025). Casey’s work is broadcast on Sunday Miscellany (RTE). Over the years she’s received bursaries and awards from The Arts Council, An Chomhairle Ealaíonn and both Offaly and South Dublin County Councils. She has shown a number of poetry in public places installations, most recent being ‘Palimpsest’ (a collaboration with Visual Artist Emma Barone), in Birr Theatre & Arts, Birr, County Offaly.