About Me

Rosaline Callaghan

WELCOME

My name is Rosaline Callaghan, and I’m the voice behind Wild Storyteller.

A name I chose because the stories I tell (and live), and the poems I write don’t wear sensible brogues. 
They run barefoot, they maunder, they resist.

They plunge into the Mariana Trench of memory and myth, and reach for a glint of meaning.

 

Although I didn’t grow up with the language of ‘art’, I read a lot.
And, I was always, always listening.

 

For me, poetry and storytelling isn’t about entertainment alone.
It’s about remembering who we are and what we belong to.

It’s about reclaiming lost voices, and foraging for hidden voices.

It’s about sitting still long enough to hear the wind carry someone else’s truth to you.

It’s about being willing to heft your truth to someone else’s feet.

 

I’m a recovering bewildered wanderer, barrister, people pleaser and dipsomaniac. 

It only took six decades of unravelling before I finally learned the shape of my one wild and precious life.

SNAPSHOTS

Rosaline Callaghan
With my father on the banks of the Clyde – early befuddlement on my wee face!
Rosaline Callaghan Holiday Projects West
Rocking the sunglasses with Holiday Projects West, Derry, 1976
Rosaline Callaghan
Sweetest sixteen with International Voluntary Service, Derry, 1976
Rosaline Callaghan
Guest Poet at Annual Bloody Sunday Lecture, Derry
Guest Poet at Culmore Literary Festival, Derry
Guest Speaker at Mayor's Reception, Guildhall, Derry
Rosaline Callaghan
Guest Speaker at the Irish Pharmaceutical Healthcare Association's Gala Dinner, Dublin, March 2024
"There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others."
Mary Shelley
Founder of Amyloidosis Ireland Support Group
Development Officer with NIRDP
Society of Authors
Committee Member of PSWG Society of Authors
Belfast Book Fair
Belfast Book Festival 2024
Elizabeth Haylett Clark and Johanna Clarke from the Society of Authors at Belfast Book Festival 2024

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