He was profiled in the New Yorker in December 2022. He has held numerous poetry residencies, most recently with The Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City, and the Morton Deutsch International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution at Columbia University. His poetry has been featured in Harvard Review, RTÉ’s Poem of the Week, Poetry Ireland, New England Review, The Kenyon Review and the Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day.
Ó Tuama has written three collections of poetry and a book of spiritual reflection. Ó Tuama received his Bachelor of Arts in Divinity from the Maryvale Institute of Birmingham, England and his Master's of Theology from Queen's University Belfast. Ó Tuama was brought up in a Catholic family in County Cork, Ireland. Pádraig Ó Tuama is an Irish poet, theologian and conflict mediator. In particular, Pádraig tells careful stories of welcoming parts of life that are often unwelcome.In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World Interweaving everyday stories with analysis, gospel reflections with mindfulness and Celtic spirituality with poetry, this book explores the practice of welcoming as a spiritual discipline. 'Hello,' he said, welcoming people locked in a room of fear to a place of deep encounter encounter with themselves, with their fear, with each other and with the incarnate one in their midst.
He does not chide or admonish instead he says 'Peace be with you', which, in the Aramaic of his day, was simply a greeting. The fourth gospel tells of Jesus arriving in the room where the disciples are gathered, full of fear, on Easter Sunday. In this book much-loved poet, storyteller, theologian and speaker Pádraig Ó Tuama applies ideas of shelter and welcome to journeys of life, using poetry, story, biblical reflection and prose to open up gentle ways of living well in a troubled world.
There's an old Irish proverb: 'It is in the shelter of each other that the people live'.
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