Bernadette Gallagher is a poet from Ireland. Her debut poetry collection, The Risen Tree, was published by Revival Press in 2024. She has received awards from the Arts Council of Ireland and Cork County Council.
Her work has been published in Crannóg, Agenda, The Stinging Fly, The North, The Tablet, Stony Thursday, The Frogmore Papers, FLARE, Dreich, Southword 41, New Isles Press Issue 2, Irish Examiner, Boyne Berries, ROPES, Stanzas, in the US peace journal DoveTales, Cork Words 3, Tabula Rasa, In the Cinnamon Corners, Ó Bhéal Five Words, In Dappled Shade and in various online journals including: HeadStuff.org, Picaroon Poetry, Poethead, The Incubator, Live Encounters, Backstory, Other Terrain, Shot Glass Journal, The Galway Review, Pendemic, The Poetry Shed, Issue #1 of Bealtaine, Issue 4 Drawn to the Light Press, Agenda, One Poem/Porridge, London Grip, PEN, Poetry Matters and Mugwort.
A selection of her work has been recorded by the University College Dublin Poetry Archive the Words Lightly Spoken podcast #115. She has been invited to read her work in Ireland, UK, US, and at the Sahitya Akademi in New Delhi, India.
An essay by Bernadette on the poet Dorothea Herbert (1767-1829) is published in Irish Women Poets Rediscovered: Readings in Poetry from 18th - 20th Century edited by Maria Johnston and Conor Linnie; Publisher: Cork University Press, 2021.A poem written by
Bernadette, titled ‘Inis Bó Finne’, was selected by Máire Dinny Wren. This was in response to a
call out for “Cruthaitheacht Chois Fharraige” hosted by Turas Úr Arts
collective as part of Earagail Arts Festival 2025.
As part of the Ó Bhéal go Béal, Bernadette has been nominated
to participate in the 2025 Cork/Coventry Twin Cities Poetry Exchange.
