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Day 3: Master Craftsmen & the Art of Storytelling1 comment

Megan wrote 2 days ago: Creating art, in all its forms, is to possess a combination of creativity, passion & skill mixed … more →

Tags: Travel, Storytelling, Music, Ireland, Waterford, Waterford Crystal, Art, Dunbrody, Craftsmen

Happy Bloomsday -- quotes from JAMES JOYCE on Christopher Columbus and his own immortality1 comment

bridget whelan wrote 4 days ago: Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honoured by posterity because he was the last to discove … more →

Tags: Quotes, Quotes, James Joyce, Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, Bloomsday, Dublin, flann o' brien

#PoetryinJune: Grand Canal Dublin1 comment

Chris Mills 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 →

Tags: Poetry in June, allen lane, Grand Canal, John Coll, Liam Brady

Canal Bank Walk ~ Gatherings from Ireland # 1577 comments

socialbridge wrote 2 weeks ago: I got a figairi early this morning to sort through a dusty cabinet  that’s stuffed with books … more →

Tags: Gatherings from Ireland, Grand Canal Dublin, Canal Bank Walk, first job interview

Poetry Ireland Introductions 2013 Series Two: Featured Writer: Caoilinn Hughes1 comment

Philip Cummins wrote 2 weeks ago: Galway poet Caoilinn Hughes Over the course of the next few days and weeks, I’ll be posting intervie … more →

Tags: Books, Poetry, The Poetry Ireland Introductions Interviews 2013, County Monaghan, Faber, facebook, galway, Inniskeen, Inspirational

Inniskeen

lumberjack177 wrote 4 weeks ago: Peaceful Island Inniskeen Inniskeen, officially Inishkeen (Irish: Inis Caoin, meaning “peacefu … more →

Tags: Historic Site, Villages, Abbey at Louth, carrickmacross, Carrolls, County Armagh, County Louth, County Monaghan, Crossmaglen

1940s Typographic covers4 comments

hitone wrote 1 month ago: A Keeper of Swans, Patrick Purcell, Talbot Press, 1944. Design: uncredited The Dawn of All, R.H. Ben … more →

Tags: Browne & Nolan, Burns Oates & Washbourne, Talbot Press, Unknown, Forties, Irish Book Covers, Louis Budenz, Neil Kevin, Patrick Purcell

Irish Roots in Poetry in the 20th Century

eod23 wrote 1 month ago:   en: Patrick Kavanagh statue along the Grand Canal in Dublin pl: Pomnik Patricka Kavanagha przy Gra … more →

Tags: Poetry, Louis Macneice, Dublin, identity, Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, roots, rootless

Katherine Lynch Meet and Greet at Ballymun Civic Centre

discoverballymun wrote 1 month ago: Katherine Lynch talking to the small crowd at Ballymun Civic Centre An animated katherine Lynch read … more →

Tags: Community, Ballymun, Katherine Lynch, book, Ireland

Patrick Kavanagh

FL Larmon wrote 1 month ago: Canal Bank Walk Leafy-with-love banks and the green waters of the canal Pouring redemption for me, t … more →

Tags: precious, Photography, Finding Love, Poetry of Life, Sweethearts, XXX, Poetry, Voice Life, Dublin

Relapsing from cancer...by mistake2 comments

Anthony Wilson wrote 1 month ago: Seven years ago this is what happened halfway through my treatment for non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. I wen … more →

Tags: Lifesaving Poems, Poets, Poems, Cancer, Blood cancer, riddance, Life Lessons, Love for Now, non-hodgkins lymphoma

Patrick Kavanagh on the Grand Canal2 comments

ms6282 wrote 1 month ago: O commemorate me where there is water, Canal water, preferably, so stilly Greeny at the heart of sum … more →

Tags: Travel, Dublin, Poetry, Grand Canal

It's A Life2 comments

A Golden Gate State of Mind wrote 2 months ago: Born in October 1952 on the day tea rationing ended in Britain (good timing that, given my mother … more →

Tags: writing, Blogging, At-swim-two-birds, Baseball, Blog, Cricket, essex university, Flann O'Brien, gillingham football club

Poetry for Patrick's Day: Epic by Patrick Kavanagh

Paddy wrote 3 months ago: I AM reading this poem out tomorrow at a service of celebration of the Celtic nation feast days comi … more →

Tags: Writing & Journalism, Epic, Poetry

The Storyteller and the Poet: a St. Patrick's Day Writing Prompt (revisited 2013)

Stefanie Lipsey wrote 3 months ago: Imagine you’re traveling by bus along a beautiful road, just a short distance from Dublin, Ire … more →

Tags: Writing prompt #2, Writing Inspiration, Reading, Travel Writing, Poetry, Writing prompt, Ireland, eavan boland, Seamus Heaney

From Kerry to Inniskillen; She Stands on Raglan Road

A Foreign Sojourn wrote 3 months ago: I was poking around the internet finding obscure and odd tidbits (mostly fuel for my writing) I was … more →

Tags: Response and Critiques, Poetry, Dubliner, Crimean War, Luke Kelly, St. Patrick's Day

Every day a new distraction

Malcolm Redfellow wrote 3 months ago: Today’s was William Bloat. That has divided those who venture these ways into an immediate swi … more →

Tags: Northern Ireland, Ireland, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, Literature, Folk music, Belfast, Dublin 2

Patrick Kavanagh girlfriend, Ms Deirdre Manifold

Patrick Kavanagh Western Assoc. wrote 4 months ago:   ‘Deirdre’s Passions’ short film In 2009 Bannerboy Productions made a short documentary film o … more →

Tags: Irish Culture Documentary film, Bannerboy Productions, Deirdre Manifold, Dirdres Passions, Documentary, film, galway, Irish Culture Video, short

The Top 20 Lifesaving Poems5 comments

Anthony Wilson wrote 4 months ago: I began writing the Lifesaving Poems series of blog posts in May 2010. The idea was to celebrate the … more →

Tags: Ann Gray, blake morrison, Derek Mahon, Douglas Dunn, Elizabeth Jennings, Hugo Williams, Lifesaving Poems, Moniza Alvi, Naomi Jaffa


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