March 14th, 2011 by Peter
When Morgan Jones handed me a CD by Gerry Murphy and told me it was hilarious I doubted it. Just look at it…. That’s what I did. Maybe it was the name. Maybe it was the fact that he...
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October 18th, 2010 by Sinead Keogh
**Competition closed, congratulations to Emer.** If you were in secondary school in the ’80s or ’90s then you probably had a copy of Soundings. It was the go-to poetry anthology for...
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November 19th, 2009 by Ronan
Last night, Darren sent out an email to all us culchies to see if anyone had any interest in covering the match. There was an unprecedented response, so expect to see about thirty-seven posts about...
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September 29th, 2009 by darraghdoyle
I was only delighted to be wandering down Westmoreland Street on Saturday and see that Pat Ingoldsby has a new book out. His latest collection of poetry (with some prose) is called I Thought You...
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September 18th, 2009 by darraghdoyle
Steph has already posted about Nick Cave’s evening of readings and live music, with Cave joined by Warren Ellis and Martyn Casey to coincide with the publication of The Death of Bunny Munro....
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June 3rd, 2009 by darraghdoyle
I witnessed something lovely least night. Something rather special. At the opening event of the Dublin Writers Festival, poetry readings by Seamus Heaney, writer and broadcaster Olivia O’...
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May 1st, 2009 by Lottie
Author Carol Ann Duffy, has been named the first ever female (and first Scot coincidentally) to be appointed to the post of Poet Laureate in over 340 years since the posts creation. The 53 year...
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