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Sligo’s reputation as a hub for the literati continues this weekend. ‘Poetry by the Weir’ is a poetry reading event which is organised by Sligo based author Gerard Beirne and will take place this week in Osta Cafe on Sunday, August 5. At this reading, audiences will be treated to poems from local author and […] ....
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In the Poetry Programme on Sunday 16th May, at 7:30 pm on RTÉ Radio 1, Olivia O Leary’s guests are John FitzGerald and Ireland Professor of Poetry Frank Ormsby. John FitzGerald is University Librarian at University College Cork and started to write poetry around ten years ago, in his late forties. While still unpublished, he won the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Prize for 2014. A pamphlet, First Cut, was published in 2017 by Southword Editions, and he joins Olivia to talk about his first full-length collection, The Time Being, published by The Gallery Press in June 2021. We need your consent to load this SoundCloud contentWe use SoundCloud to manage extra content that can set cookies on your device and collect data about your activity. Please review their details and accept them to load the content.Manage Preferences ....
Where were my women on May 3, 1921? Did they dance on the streets and wave flags when Northern Ireland was born? Were their struggles any different when they woke up the next day? The women in my family were ordinary Protestants from Belfast and Newry. Their stories have not been overly preserved. I have suitcases of clippings on war heroes and handed-down tales of notable men. But I have fewer tools to discern how my women experienced their lives 100 years ago. I ve used official records, newspaper archives and fragments of family memories to piece together their lives. I wanted to see what could be learned by excavating the truly ordinary. None of my women did anything famous, or infamous. But they glued their own worlds together. And sometimes they fell apart. Imagining their lives during partition is my small tribute to them. As well as an exploration of Protestant women s lives at this time. ....