Cathy Sweeney
Cathy Sweeney is a short story writer and novelist and TBG+S Commissioned Writer 2026.
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Commissioned Writer
The TBG+S Writing Commission aims to expand ideas around writing about art by inviting Irish writers to create a series of pieces inspired by the exhibitions at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.
Since 2015, TBG+S has commissioned innovative Irish writers to respond to each of the exhibitions in the gallery programme, producing a library of thought-provoking written pieces. Printed copies of the these writings are available in the gallery of are available to download from the website.
Gustav Parker Hibbett
Gustav Parker Hibbett, TBG+S Commissioned Writer 2025, is a Black poet, essayist, and MFA dropout.
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe, TBG+S Commissioned Writer 2024, is a poet, pacifist and fabulist.
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Padraig Regan
Padraig Regan, TBG+S Writer 2023, is a poet and essayist from Belfast.
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Thomas Morris
Thomas Morris is TBG+S Commissioned Writer, 2022. He is a Dublin-based author and editor from Caerphilly, South Wales.
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Nicole Flattery
Nicole Flattery is a writer based in Dublin.
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Ian Maleney
Ian Maleney is a writer based in Dublin.
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Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from northwest Donegal.
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Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Doireann Ní Ghríofa is an Irish poet who writes in both Irish and English.
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Gavin Corbett
Gavin Corbett is an author from Dublin.
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Claire-Louise Bennett
Claire-Louise Bennett is an author from Wiltshire in the southwest of England.
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Sara Baume
Sara Baume is an Irish novelist, based in West Cork.
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