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October 2026 / Event
Noel’s poetry film commemorates his great-grandparents who made a journey across the River Tyne in 1848.
It will be shown on all the Tyne Ferry crossings on National Poetry Day on Thursday 4th October. It will remain live on the following weekend during the Newcastle Poetry Festival and at The Globe Gallery in N […]

Drawn to Poetry: Selected Works at Seventy Exhibition / Event
(1-30 May, The Linen Hall Library, Belfast)
According to W.H. Auden in his poem ‘In memory of W.B. Yeats’ ‘poetry makes nothing happen’. But for artist Noel Connor nothing could be further from the truth. Poetry has provided him with creative stimulus and inspiration fo […]

‘Sharing the Shore’
(July 2024)
The astounding beauty of the Donegal coastline around Rosbeg has compelled us to return there for over 25 years, fostering a love of the place which we have tried to capture in this book. The collection offers our combined creative response to an area of such shared significance and our long watchful aw […]

Works selected for the Ruthin International Arts Festival, Wales.
(28th June to 28th July 2024)
 
Noel’s photowork ‘Discarded Shoe’ and his accompanying poem ‘A Life Lived Elsewhere’ have been selected for inclusion in the Ruthin International Arts Festival. Centred on the theme of ‘Elsewhere’ artists and poets from ove […]

The Linen Hall Library, Belfast.
(4th October to 28th October 2022)
 
As part of ‘Belfast’s Home of Poetry’ a special series of events for October, the Linen Hall Library has invited Noel to exhibit his work as part of the programme. It will give him the opportunity to show again in the heart of Belfast his film ‘Lost Lin […]

The Gerard Dillon Gallery, Cultúrlann, Belfast.
(24th March to 28th of April 2022)
Noel was born and raised in West Belfast and as a child he would have traveled from his home in Andersonstown into town on the number 12 trolley bus. Trolley buses were finally withdrawn from service on the 12th May 1968. For this project he tracked down a […]

An exhibition at the Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Donegal (15th January to 4th March 2022).
This exhibition funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and organized by Artlink in Donegal has been curated by Garrett Carr, a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. He is also the […]

‘An Ungoverned Sky’
A new collaboration between Noel Connor and Paul Stangroom
(April 2021)
Paul and I have published a new collection of our work, a beautifully produced full colour hardback book. It’s been expertly created for us by Dean’s Printers and Bookbinders at their workshop in Cheadle Heath.
A special Limited Edition of […]

‘A First Victim’

The Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Competition, Cork.
(November 2020)
Noel’s film ‘A First Victim’, which formed part of his Bovedy Illuminations project has been shortlisted for the Ó Bhéal International Poetry-Film Prize. It will be screened on-line on 29th November, as part of the Winter Warmer Poetry […]