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A few photos from my day at the Cork Poetry Festival. Had a one to one workshop with Matthew Sweeney. Later I went to see Liz Berry and Don Share then met almost every poet in Ireland in the bar afterwards!

My very fancy invitation to the Hennessy Awards

Eighteen writers chosen from entries submitted in the last 12 months in three categories: First Fiction, Emerging Fiction and Emerging Poetry Delighted to be one of these 18! The latest Hennessy nominees

This is the first poem I wrote responding to the Sweeney myth. I thought I’d share it here. (Featured Image: https://www.behance.net/gallery/Suibhne-Sculpture-Cycle/3163556) Sweeney Defection   Sometimes a seed spreads so fast it’s easy to forget where it began   to grow until everyone stops asking and goes along mindlessly, eating   up the fruit with their mouths […]

This is the reason for learning the Irish language. I was helping out at the Blog Awards Ireland last night and the presenter wasn’t able to read the nominees for the Best Blog in the Irish Language category. Up stepped the hero, yours truly, to effortlessly navigate my way through the urús, séamhús and letters of the […]

Even though my own experience of poetry in school was not positive, this one is one that I remember with as much fondness as the machine of the Leaving Cert allowed. As an adult, I can appreciate it more than ever. EPIC by PATRICK KAVANAGH I have lived in important places, times When great events […]