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’ […]
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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.
The Carlow Writers’ Cooperative’s latest reading was part of the Summer Nights event in Visual, the brilliant art space in Carlow Town. Our group read in the Links Gallery.
Hennessy Literary Awards: Poetry – Simon Lewis
Hennessy Literary Awards: Poetry – Simon Lewis My three poems were published in the Review section of the Irish Independent yesterday and you can read them there. I’m also copying and pasting them here in case the Independent goes into receivership… These poems are from a series based on a group of Jewish people who […]
Published in New Irish Writing in Irish Independent today.