Background
Paula Meehan was born on June 25, 1955, in Dublin, Ireland. The eldest of six children.
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Paula Meehan was born on June 25, 1955, in Dublin, Ireland. The eldest of six children.
Meehan started school at St. Elizabeth's in Kingston upon Thames, England, where her parents had travelled to find work. She subsequently attended a number of primary schools around Dublin. She finished her primary education at the Central Model Girls' School in Gardiner Street. She began her secondary education at St. Michael's Holy Faith Covent in Finglas but was expelled for organising a protest march against the regime of the school. She studied for her Intermediate Certificate on her own and then went to Whitehall House Senior School. She received from Trinity College her B.A. in 1977. Later, in 1983 she received from Eastern Washington University her M.F.A.
Paula worked as literacy organizer at South Inner City, Dublin from 1984 to 1988. Besides, she conducts workshops in poetry for community groups, including North Centre City Community Action Project and the Fatima Mansions Development Group. Since 1985 she has been an Irish co-coordinator, poetry master classes on Summer Writing Workshop in Dublin, Eastern Washington University. Since 1986 she has been a teacher of writing workshops in prisons, Arts Council Writers in the Prison Scheme. Meehan was poet-in-residence at The Frost place, Franconia, New Hampshire in spring 1987, then writer-in-residence at Trinity College, Dublin in 1992. She was a writer by association at the University College, Dublin in 1992, later she has outreach residency with Verbal Arts Centre, Derry and Antrim counties in 1993. She was also writer-in-residence, TEAM Theatre in Education, Dublin in 1994.
Outside school she was a member of a dance drama group.
