My response to the Sweeney Myth and Seán Lynch’s exhibition in Visual, inspired by my first week as a dad. Suibne I study the magenta, pink and white specks, on your head and the wisps of white vernix as you squeal, squirm and suck the air. I wipe milk and mucus from your lips, […]
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Poetry Award – Patrick Kavanagh Centre Inniskeen Co. Monaghan
Delighted to have been placed as a “special commendation” in the Patrick Kavanagh award this year. Poetry Award – Patrick Kavanagh Centre Inniskeen Co. Monaghan
The reason I’m not blogging (or writing) as much as usual
A Tour of Jewtown
I was recently shown around Cork City by Thomas McCarthy who gave me a glimpse of the influence of Jewtown in Cork today. The first image is a bridge opened by Gerald Goldberg when he was Lord Mayor of Cork City. The second image is the synagogue on South Terrace. Thirdly is David Marcus’ parents’ […]
Reading: Co. Wexford
Reading at Fusion Café in Wexford Town.
At the back of my house
I now live in a house in front of the River Barrow. I went for a short walk along it yesterday and have spotted some lovely places to write alongside it.
Fermoy International Poetry Festival 2014 Poetry Bus
Pictures from the Fermoy International Poetry Festival 2014 Poetry Bus. Yesterday, I spent the day in Fermoy on a poetry bus, a bus full of people who are interested in or write poetry. The bus brought us to a number of places outside Fermoy including a ruined priory and Doneraile Gardens. A lovely part of […]
Clogrennan Woods, Carlow. (http://www.irishtrails.ie/Trail/Clogrennane-Wood-Loop/396/) Lovely picnic table and weirdly good 4G reception for tethering. If you can ignore the factory noise next door and find a rainless day, it’s a good place to go.
A nice place to write. This is the tea rooms in Huntington Castle in Clonegal.
A review of Listowel Writers’ Week 2014
A review of Listowel Writers’ Week 2014 A good review of the week at Listowel.