Sunday, March 23, 2008

Dublin Writers Workshop

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Great credit is due to Nessa O’Mahony for her website “Dublin Writers Workshop Online” see . It all goes back to the well-known Dublin Writ...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008

What's in a Title

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Occasionally a combination of words grabs you, opens up a new space in your mind, new possibilities. Mary O’Gorman’s title “I am Horses, I a...
Sunday, March 9, 2008

Ireland and Newfoundland

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A wave of emigration from Ireland to Newfoundland, particularly from the south-east of Ireland, occurred in the early 1800’s even before the...
Saturday, March 1, 2008

Interest in Poetry

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The new ESRI Report, In the Frame or Out of the Picture?, analyses current involvement in the Arts in Ireland in terms of participation in t...
Saturday, February 23, 2008

Stop the Next War

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I came across this on YouTube. It's a very poignant and striking statement against all war-making.
Friday, February 22, 2008

Bio-energy

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I normally don’t say anything about Kay’s business but recently she has had some spectacular results healing through Bio-energy. You can lea...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Rathmines Festival

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My role with Rathmines Festival is peripheral this year; I’m no longer part of the organising committee. I'm enjoying the relaxation tha...

Writing From Within

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Notice of Writing From Within, Haiku and the Spiritual Dimension, comes from Maeve O’Sullivan. This is a workshop with Maeve O’Sullivan an...
Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Caccini's Ave Maria

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This is exquisite. Don't bother about the pictures, turn it up, close your eyes and savor
Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Pádraig J Daly and RS Thomas

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Pádraig J Daly is a poet I have great time for. I find his poetry thought-provoking and persuasive. He does not roar his presence, for many...
Sunday, January 13, 2008

Tuol Sleng Still

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In 1999 I wrote a series of poems called Tuol Sleng Still. They were inspired by the gut-wrenching photographs of the inmates of Tuol Sleng,...
Monday, January 7, 2008

Gorumna Island, 360 degrees Connemara Landscape

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I'd forgotten about this snippet of video from a walk in September 2006. Pass through the island of Lettermore over the bridge onto Goru...
Sunday, January 6, 2008

Roscommon Writers

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Now that the O’Dea house in Roscommon is no more - my mother died two years ago and the house has since been demolished – I feel quite eager...
Friday, December 28, 2007

Irish Literary Revival

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I’m greatly impressed by the “Irish Literary Revival” website, (a new discovery for me), which contains the texts of out-of-print books by S...
Monday, December 17, 2007

Slimming for the Beach

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Thanks to Philip Casey for plugging this blog on his own blog "Slimming for the Beach". Here's the link: http://blog.philipcas...
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