Song Weigher Peter Stead Sinéad Morrissey

Sinéad Morrissey

while his story ‘A Ghost’ won first prize in the Cinescape Genre Literary Competition in L

writing out a clear and present labyrinthine voice that goes beyond even what the words themselves convey

lived experience enters into an exchange with imagined pasts

She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Commissions Grant in 2004 for playwriting

Song Weigher Peter Stead Sinéad MorrisseyEgill Skallagrmsson was the most original, imaginative and technically brilliant of the Old Norse skalds, poets whose orally composed and performed verses were as much revered in ninth to thirteenth century Scandinavia as heroism in battle. Egill's saga details his life story as well as those of his immediate predecessors, from whom he inherited his massive build, his early baldness (Skalla in his name means 'bald') and his exceptional ugliness. An