Blogs about: Patrick Kavanagh
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Patrick Kavanagh: Advent
1942 We have tested and tasted too much, lover- Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder. But here in the Advent-darkened room Where the dry black bread and the sugarless tea Of penance will… more →
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Day 3: Master Craftsmen & the Art of Storytelling
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wrote 2 days ago: Creating art, in all its forms, is to possess a combination of creativity, passion & skill mixed … more →
Happy Bloomsday -- quotes from JAMES JOYCE on Christopher Columbus and his own immortality
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wrote 4 days ago: Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discove … more →
#PoetryinJune: Grand Canal Dublin
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I shall say straightaway that you will have to overlook the mention of July in this poem when it is … more →
Canal Bank Walk ~ Gatherings from Ireland # 157
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I got a figairi early this morning to sort through a dusty cabinet that’s stuffed with books … more →
Poetry Ireland Introductions 2013 Series Two: Featured Writer: Caoilinn Hughes
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Galway poet Caoilinn Hughes Over the course of the next few days and weeks, I’ll be posting intervie … more →
Inniskeen
wrote 4 weeks ago: Peaceful Island Inniskeen Inniskeen, officially Inishkeen (Irish: Inis Caoin, meaning “peacefu … more →
1940s Typographic covers
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wrote 1 month ago: A Keeper of Swans, Patrick Purcell, Talbot Press, 1944. Design: uncredited The Dawn of All, R.H. Ben … more →
Irish Roots in Poetry in the 20th Century
wrote 1 month ago: en: Patrick Kavanagh statue along the Grand Canal in Dublin pl: Pomnik Patricka Kavanagha przy Gra … more →
Katherine Lynch Meet and Greet at Ballymun Civic Centre
wrote 1 month ago: Katherine Lynch talking to the small crowd at Ballymun Civic Centre An animated katherine Lynch read … more →
Patrick Kavanagh
wrote 1 month ago: Canal Bank Walk Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal Pouring redemption for me, t … more →
Relapsing from cancer...by mistake
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wrote 1 month ago: Seven years ago this is what happened halfway through my treatment for non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I wen … more →
Patrick Kavanagh on the Grand Canal
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wrote 1 month ago: O commemorate me where there is water, Canal water, preferably, so stilly Greeny at the heart of sum … more →
It's A Life
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wrote 2 months ago: Born in October 1952 on the day tea rationing ended in Britain (good timing that, given my mother … more →
Poetry for Patrick's Day: Epic by Patrick Kavanagh
wrote 3 months ago: I AM reading this poem out tomorrow at a service of celebration of the Celtic nation feast days comi … more →
The Storyteller and the Poet: a St. Patrick's Day Writing Prompt (revisited 2013)
wrote 3 months ago: Imagine you’re traveling by bus along a beautiful road, just a short distance from Dublin, Ire … more →
From Kerry to Inniskillen; She Stands on Raglan Road
wrote 3 months ago: I was poking around the internet finding obscure and odd tidbits (mostly fuel for my writing) I was … more →
Every day a new distraction
wrote 3 months ago: Today’s was William Bloat. That has divided those who venture these ways into an immediate swi … more →
Patrick Kavanagh girlfriend, Ms Deirdre Manifold
wrote 4 months ago: ‘Deirdre’s Passions’ short film In 2009 Bannerboy Productions made a short documentary film o … more →
The Top 20 Lifesaving Poems
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wrote 4 months ago: I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the … more →
