ABOUT ALISON HACKETT
I am the director and founder of publishing house 21st Century Renaissance (focusing on history, illustration and poetry) and author of The Visual Time Traveller which was selected by international jury for the Global Irish Design Challenge exhibitions of 2016 and 2017. My debut collection of poetry, Crabbing, is a memoir of love and loss, my twelve-year-old voice emerging through the lens of a fifty-two-year-old when it was written.
My work has featured as RTE’s poem of the day (in 2020) and in literary journals in Ireland, U.S., India and Australia. I worked for the Institute of Physics for many years and there developed my interests in outreach and communicating science, often by visual means. This culminated in the “Physics in Time” 6-metre poster which can be viewed on the wall of the Physics department in UCD. From that The Visual Time Traveller was imagined and the rest, as they say, is history.
Born to a protestant family in Cork in 1961 much of my writing comes back to themes of religion, place and belonging in the tangle of cultures that makes up Ireland. I live in Dun Laoghaire with my husband, Justin, quite close to the sea but not as close as my first home in Currabinny looking over Cork harbour.
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In the year 2000, not long after taking up my role as the Institute of Physics representative in Ireland, I was part of the Irish delegation that attended the Physics on stage conference being held at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics. The first of...
