Niamh McNally.
'New Impressions' was published by The John Hewitt Society & ACNI. Recently, Niamh has read her poetry in The UN Buffer Zone, Cyprus as part of Herstory's Peace Heroines Project, The NI Executive Office (Brussels), The Embassy of Ireland (The Hague), and in Dublin Castle for the 3rd Shared Island Forum (2024). As part of a Shared Island Project, which was funded by The Government of Ireland, Niamh was invited to attend a residential in Longford to collaborate with artists from across the island. From this time spent together, 'Shared Island Symphony' was born, and was produced and filmed by Alan Gilsenan from Yellow Asylum Films, then performed in Dublin Castle. She has just been commissioned to write for, and perform in, The Guildhall as part of the 2024 Field Day Lecture. Niamh is the current Poet-in-Residence for Herstory, Ireland and Translink.
Niamh McNally is a Belfast-based poet. She completed her MA in Ulster University where she co-created and was a poetry editor for The Paperclip; a student-led literary publication.
Niamh facilitates workshops in The Seamus Heaney Homeplace and has been published in: The Tulsa Review, Tír na nÓg, and HOWL: New Irish Writing. Her poetry has featured in two climate crisis films, and she performed at the One Young World Summit 2023.
Niamh’s poem ‘If Stone Could Speak’ was showcased by Bushmills for 'The Causeway Collection’ and her poem
Line Work
Location: Pinewood Underpass, Ballybrack.
This area can be dark and isolated at times. It also has moving vehicles close by. Please be mindful of your surroundings.
Line Work' by Niamh McNally was commissioned by Translink as part of the opening of York Street Station in 2024. Originally sited at York Street Underpass in Belfast, this work is now geolocated at Pinewood Underpass in Ballybrack, linking two infrastructure-led urban edge sites.
Underpasses keep traffic flowing but are often overlooked. Line Work reframes them as shared public space. The “line” suggests a route, boundary, or trace of repeated journeys.
Both sites are shaped by post-war planning and commuter patterns. Moving the work connects places with a common urban experience. Part of SLEEPERTOWN, this mobile public art project invites a brief pause and attention to the everyday spaces we pass through.