Poetry

Yours fondly, Patrick

by Bean an Phoist on February 14, 2012 · 1 comment

in Collections,Manuscripts

by Nora-Jane Thornton, National Photographic Archive (and Unashamed Romantic) Closure, not the most romantic of sentiments, seems to be the message of this letter. It was written by the poet, Patrick Kavanagh in May 1945 to Hilda Moriarty, a young medical student whom he had met the previous year. In it he seems to acknowledge [...]

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Poetry Aloud

by Bean an Phoist on October 14, 2011 · 0 comments

in Events,Guest Bloggers

by BARRY PIERCE Transition Year Student (St. Colman’s College, Fermoy, Co. Cork) Video Blogger Poetry Aloud 2010 Semi-Finalist It all started with my English teacher in class saying that there was a poetry competition coming up and that she would like to enter some students. She explained that we would have to learn two poems [...]

Tagged as: Barry Pierce, Carol Ann Duffy, Dylan Thomas, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Guest bloggers, Lewis Carroll, National Library of Ireland, Poems, Poetry, Poetry Aloud, Poetry Ireland, St. Colman's College, St. John's Central College, W.B. Yeats

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