Pádraig Ó Tuama
Memoir, Poetry, Spirituality, Theology
Pádraig Ó Tuama received a BA (Div) from Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, and an MTh from Queens University Belfast. He is the author of the poetry collections Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community (2017), Sorry for Your Troubles (2013) and Readings from the Books of Exile (2012), all published by Canterbury Press in the United Kingdom. He is also the author of In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World (Hodder & Stoughton, 2015), a book of spiritual reflection.
From 2014-2019, Ó Tuama was the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation organization, which works with over 10,000 people a year to transform division through human encounters with focuses on sectarianism, marginalization, public theology and the legacies of conflict. He is currently the staff poet and theologian at The On Being Project and hosts the Poetry Unbound podcast. Ó Tuama lives in Ireland.
