This paper investigates the relationship between the activism associated with contemporary performance poetry in Ireland and its existence in a digital and internet culture. One of the most prominent concerns of contemporary performers is the ever-challenged Irish identity. In this respect the works of Stephen James Smith, Jess Kavanaugh, and Adam Mohamed are of particular interest. Moreover, concepts surrounding gender and motherhood are grappled with by performers such as Emmet Kirwan and Kimberly Campanello. This paper focuses only on two broad and interrelated concerns of performance poets in Ireland over the past decade: 1) the notion of Irishness or the making of the Irish self in the context of nationality and race and 2) motherhood, womanhood, and sexism in Ireland.