What have Oscar Wilde’s father, Douglas Hyde, Oliver Goldsmith, John McGahern, Turlough O’Carolan and John Waters got in common? Put a Ros before the common and you’ve got it. They are all writers connected with County Roscommon.
They, along with 25 other Roscommon connected authors, will feature in a new book to be published this month. The book will be illustrated with artworks from artists with Roscommon connections. A colourful Literary Road Map of County Roscommon is also being published as a companion document. The book entitled THE ROSCOMMON ANTHOLOGY was edited by two natives of Roscommon town, Michael and John O’Dea. The foreword was written by Prof Mary McAleese, ex-president of Ireland and a woman of Roscommon ancestry. The book promises to surprise many people with the great literary heritage that County Roscommon possesses.
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The Anthology will be launched at 7.30pm on Thursday 21st Nov in King House, Boyle. Roscommon Libraries will be hosting the event, and Vincent Woods will be launching it.
There will be a Dublin launch at 6.30pm on Thurs, Nov 28th in the Uppercross House Hotel, Upr Rathmines Rd, and a Roscommon launch at 6.30pm on Friday 6th Dec in The Bank of Ireland, The Square, Roscommon.
And you are definitely invited!
5 comments:
Wow, you've been working on this for years. Congratulations!
Hi Sabne, the problem is that I wasn't working most of the time. M
Congratulations Michael and John!
This work is long overdue.Can't wait to get my hands on it.
Maeve Harrington
Thanks Maeve. Come along on Friday
and collect one.
Would love to be there Michael but
had other family arrangements made before I heard that lovely Arts program with Vincent Woods on Monday.
I should also say that I am a proud
"Roscommonian " now living in Cork.
Surely Easons will have the Anthology
Maeve
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