Outdoor Easter scene, St Patrick's Church, Trim, Co Meath
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Taken c.1953 in Rockfield National School, Co. Sligo
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I'm a retired teacher and ICT Advisor who writes history and poetry. A native of County Sligo now living in Meath. A member of LitLab the Cavan/Meath Writers' Group, of Boyne Writers, Trim, County Meath and former editor of their magazine Boyne Berries.
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My Sligo 1912-1923 is published by Four Courts Press as the first volume of their Irish Revolution series.
Asking for Directions, my first poetry collection, was published by Doghouse Books, Tralee in May 2012.
Taken c.1953 in Rockfield National School, Co. Sligo
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- The Old Bridge, Trim
- Famous Irishmen : 1930 Competition:
- Reading at the Moment
- The MAG Poetry Prize 2009
- The Garden - Wild and Tamed
- Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
- Killoran and Coolaney Secondhand
- Peter Porter Poet
- Patrick Dunne - The Lazarus Bell
- Whins
- Death of J G Ballard
- Before the Dawn in Erin
- Dicentra Spectabilis - Bleeding Heart
- Boyne Readings and Open Mic
- Boyne Writers Readings and Open Mic
- Sligo: Yeats' Nobel Prize & New Online Magazine
- Cambridge Companions: Heaney & Dylan
- Happy Birthday Seamus
- Happy Easter
- My Magnolia
- Learning Poetry by Heart
- Raymond Piper
- Paul Auster Man in the Dark
- Matt Gilsenan Sings in Switzerland
- Michael Harding in Kerry
- Leixlip Eucharistic Congress Accident
- Launch of Boyne Readings and Open Mic
- Electronic Tagging of Tax Exiles
- National Poetry Month (USA)
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Favourite Novels
- Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
- Dictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
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Apropos Holy Week, John Waters had an interesting piece in yesterday's (Good Friday's) issue of The Irish Times. He talked about the way our parents believed so much in Providence during times of adversity. He was giving out about the wall-to-wall coverage of economic matters in the media, to the exclusion of almost everything else, and almost sympathised with Brian Lenihan for the deluge of crucifixion jokes and puns that greeted a budget published in Holy Week. This laboured punning was the only way "this apparent happenstance" had been marked, he said, castigating people for missing "the note of benign irony in the fact that, nursing our wounds on this darkest of days (Good Friday), we await the deliverance of the brightest dawn in history." An interesting piece, but I had to read some parts of it two or three times before I figured out his meaning, which could be obtuse.
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