Pat Gallagher (1865-1959) of Creevane, Coolaney, Co Sligo makes an appearance in my new poetry collection which is to be published by ...

Trim Poetry Festival 2020, organized by Boyne Writers Group, will take place on Friday and Saturday,13 and 14 March 2020. Programme Frida...

Two RIC deaths I've written about often in my history are these two who have Sligo-Meath connections. It's also nice to have photog...

This panel, depicting the Nativity, once formed part of a pulpit in St Mary's Church, Athlone.  The sculptor was James Pearse, fathe...

The rose window at the south end of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, Trim, is being illuminated during Advent and Christmas this year, 2019,...

I'm one of the judges of the Trim Poetry Competition 2020. Orla Fay, editor of Boyne Berries, is my co-judge. Judging a poetry competi...

Boyne Writers Group has decided to make their journal, Boyne Berrries, an annual publication from issue 27, March 2020. From 2006 until 2019...

Ardee Baroque festival is one of the important early music festivals in Ireland. It has played host to some of the finest Irish and internat...

My poem in the Meath Writers Circle 2019 Annual is titled Stained Glass St Patrick's Church Trim and is concerned with the wonderful st...

Boyne Writers Group is by no means the only writers group in Trim. The longest established must be the Meath Writers Circle started by t...

I was delighted that my poem Lecture Near the Ambush Site was awarded third prize in the 2019 Waterford Poetry Prize. I went to Water...

I've just got a copy of this new anthology from Dedalus Press, selected and edited by Pat Boran  and Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, from an open c...

According to Wikipedia "Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted o...

SiarScéal is a historical, literary, bilingual festival hosted annually and inspired by the culture and heritage of County Roscommon and th...

The Bangor Literary Journal is a bimonthly online literary journal which showcases outstanding poetry, flash fiction and artwork from estab...

The results of the Bailieborough Poetry Festival Competition 2019.  The judge was Cavan Writer-in-Residence, Anthony J Quinn. Winner: C...

The shortlist for the Bailieborough Poetry Competition has just been announced. The judge was Cavan Writer in Residence, Anthony J Quinn ....

It's exciting when a large parcel arrives, especially when that parcel contains the just printed copies of your writers group latest...

I'm obviously delighted to have won the Bray Poetry Competition 2019 and to have read the poem at the Culture Night event in Bray on Fr...

I've just been reading my copy of What the Peacock Replied , the anthology of the winners and shortlisted poems from the Single Poem cat...