When Governments Fail, We Set Sail

Sarah has published three poetry collections, Stacey and the Mechanical Bull (Lapwing Press 2011), Thanks for Nothing, Hippies (Salmon Poetry 2012) and The Truth and Other Stories (Salmon Poetry 2014) and has had her work published in ‘Queering the Green’ (The Lifeboat 2022) and ‘The Art of Place – People and Landscape of County Clare’ (Liffey Press 2021). In 2021 her poem Cherishing for Beginners was the subject of a poetry-film collaboration between the Aidan Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation and IMMA and was shown as part of the Ghosts from the Recent Past Exhibition, the same poem featured in Margo Harkin’s acclaimed documentary Stolen which told the stories of some of the survivors of the Mother and Baby Institutions and their treatment at the hands of the state. Her work has been published and anthologised in Ireland, Canada, Mexico, Nicaragua, Slovenia, Spain, Poland, the USA and Italy. She is a columnist for the Clare Champion Newspaper and works in community development and has been involved in many campaigns including those concerning socio economic rights, marriage equality, reproductive and migrant rights. She recently returned from participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla a civil society attempt to break the illegal Israeli siege on Gaza.  You can read some of her recently published work and an essay on her approach to poetry here beginning  on page 208  View of Vol. 15 (2025): Portable Ireland: Literary and Cultural Itineraries | Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies.