Saturday, February 26, 2011

Festival under the Clock 2011

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Great line-up for this year’s “Festival Under The Clock” on April 2nd in Rathmines. Performances in Rathmines College kick off at 1.30pm wit...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

You Know The Woman That

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Her hand is tracing a face; she sees it where her fingertips are running down the cheek, following along the jaw, sweeping off the chin. And...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Invitation to Irish Authors to Submit Poetry/Short Stories

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Stephen Behrendt,Interim Senior Editor of Prairie Schooner, the oldest continuously publishing academic literary journal in the United State...
Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Roscommon Childhood

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Roscommon, and the memories of a happy childhood there, in a poem that starts off realistically but ends with a skyscape transposed to earth...
Monday, January 31, 2011

See and Hear Great Poets Online

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Wonderful to be able to hear Alfred Tennyson reading from “The Charge of the Light Brigade” in the Historic Readings section of The Poetry A...
Friday, January 28, 2011

The Disaster of War

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I get a lot of inspiration from photographs, particularly those that relate to human tragedies; and of these none have moved me more than Do...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Magical Art

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Magical Art I think the very best the arts can do is to lift us out of the mundane and into the wonderful. Too often I leave a cinema feelin...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Love Poem

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Watching Films In Your Face I am watching the film in your face: your enjoyment crinkling the corners of your eyes, teeth catching lower lip...
Monday, December 27, 2010

Poetry makes Beautiful Sound

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I suspect "I love you" sounds beautiful in any language when it is whispered by a lover with real passion and feeling. I imagine t...
Sunday, December 19, 2010

The UK and US have financed Central African Wars

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This KPFA Radio News report(21/3/2010)reports the UK and US financing of Central African wars,approx 8 million deaths.That's roughly eq...
Friday, December 17, 2010

Two Favorite Cristmas Poems

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Patrick Kavanagh's Christmas Childhood , so accurate, so evocative of my own christmas childhood: the frost on the north side of a garde...
Monday, December 6, 2010

Flying through Ireland

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I came across these two videos on Youtube. The first, posted by FaoleannOBradaigh, shows footage of Ireland from the air; it is absolutely g...
Saturday, December 4, 2010

Remembering My Mother

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December has sad memories for my family. Both my father and mother died in December; my mother five years ago. She was a very down to earth,...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Strange how the world turns

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Strange how the world turns. Empty houses dotted the countryside in the twentieth century. Emigration hollowed out rural Ireland right up to...
Sunday, November 21, 2010

It was the Sixties

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There is suddenly a new feeling and, unlike the sixties, it's not coming here second hand; it's our very own Irish turning and my in...