Anne O'Reilly's guest appearances

Anne O'Reilly

Creativity in Play

Invisible Threads

Matt Brown

Nora Atkinson

Ben Shepard

Aaron Dignan

Mary Catherine Bateson

Sir Ken Robinson

Richard Florida

Amena Brown

Dan Pink

Tom Cavanagh

Robert Moss

Eric Kandel

David Pogue

Piers Fawkes

Jim Baker

OwlTail

Anne is a retired academic living in North Dublin, she is a teacher, poet and theologian. She married when he was 19 and had two children. In the late 90s she met a woman and decided she need to follow her heart – she left her husband and started a new journey accepting her identity. She was close friends with Anne Louise Gilligan who helped her understand the courage it took to be herself and end her marriage.

7. Anne O'Reilly

NOTE: The audio of this interview has an echo. An edited version with all of Anne's comments is available here on Vimeo. We'll explore the creativity of poetry and the poetry of creativity with Irish poet Anne F. O'Reilly. Plus, find out more about the Celtic imagination, Celtic spirituality, and how to explore one's creative purpose through poetry. O'Reilly is a performance poet, celebrating the healing and transforming power of poetry. She is the author of Sacred Play: Soul Journeys in Contemporary Irish Theatre and Singing from the Belly of the Whale. Her CD, "Breathsong," was released earlier this year. Find out more about Anne, her poetry and her work online. Anne is leading sessions at the Advancing Creative Thinking: Imagination to Innovation Conference in Ridgefield, Connecticut, on April 28, 2012.

Irish Poet Anne O'Reilly on Creativity and Purpose