# Agnes Walsh

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{{Short description|Canadian poet, playwright, actor and storyteller (born 1950)}}
{{For|the matron|Agnes Marion McLean Walsh}}
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|name=Agnes Walsh
|birth_date={{birth year and age|1950}}
|birth_place=[Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador](/source/Placentia%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador), Canada
|occupation={{flatlist|
*Poet
*playwright
*actor
*storyteller
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'''Agnes Walsh''' (born 1950) is a [Canadian](/source/Canadians) [poet](/source/poet), [playwright](/source/playwright), [actor](/source/actor) and [storyteller](/source/storytelling) from [Newfoundland and Labrador](/source/Newfoundland_and_Labrador).<ref name="Heritage NL">{{cite web |url=https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/arts/agnes-walsh.php |title=Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador - Agnes Walsh |publisher=Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador |accessdate=2019-10-26 |archive-date=2019-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026155504/https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/arts/agnes-walsh.php |url-status=live }}</ref>

Born in [Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador](/source/Placentia%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador), Walsh has won Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters awards for poetry as well as TickleAce poetry and ballad writing awards. Her poems have been translated into [French](/source/French_language) and [Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language). She has toured Canada, the eastern [United States](/source/United_States), [Portugal](/source/Portugal), and [Ireland](/source/Ireland) reading from her work.<ref name="Heritage NL" />

Walsh is also the founder of the Tramore Theatre Troupe on the [Cape Shore](/source/Cape_Shore) of [Placentia Bay](/source/Placentia_Bay), an ensemble dedicated to preserving and presenting the [oral history](/source/oral_history) of that area. The group has performed to packed houses in both Newfoundland and Ireland and hosted Irish cultural exchanges to the [Cape Shore](/source/Cape_Shore) area.<ref name="Nolan">{{Cite journal |last=Nolan |first=Michael |title=Agnes Walsh. Answer Me Home: Plays from Tramore Theatre. |url=https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/view/21052/24297 |journal=Newfoundland and Labrador Studies |date=April 2012 |volume=27 |issue=1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191026222608/https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/NFLDS/article/view/21052/24297 |archive-date=2019-10-26 |access-date=2019-10-26 |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref>

She has adapted [Nobel Prize](/source/Nobel_Prize)-winning [Icelandic](/source/Icelandic_language) author [Halldór Laxness](/source/Halld%C3%B3r_Laxness)'s ''[The Atom Station](/source/The_Atom_Station)'' for the theatre.<ref name="Heritage NL" />

In 2006, Walsh was named the first [poet laureate](/source/poet_laureate) of [St. John's](/source/St._John's%2C_Newfoundland_and_Labrador).<ref name="CBC News">{{cite web |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/agnes-walsh-named-st-john-s-poet-laureate-1.579228 |title=CBC News - Agnes Walsh named St. John's poet laureate |publisher=CBC News |accessdate=2019-10-26 |archive-date=2019-11-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191109094314/https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/agnes-walsh-named-st-john-s-poet-laureate-1.579228 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Bibliography==
* ''In the Old Country of My Heart'' (1996)
* ''In the Old Country of My Heart'' audiobook edition (2003)
* ''Going Around with Bachelors'' (2007)
* ''Answer Me Home: Plays from Tramore Theatre'' (2011)
* ''Oderin'' (2018)
* ''The Wind Has Robbed the Legs Off a Madwoman'' (2024)

==References==
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Category:Canadian women dramatists and playwrights
Category:1950 births
Category:Living people
Category:People from Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador
Category:20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Category:21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
Category:20th-century Canadian poets
Category:21st-century Canadian poets
Category:Municipal poets laureate in Canada
Category:Poets from Newfoundland and Labrador
Category:20th-century Canadian women poets
Category:21st-century Canadian women poets

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