I grew up in County Monaghan, in Ulster and I have been profoundly influenced also by Patrick Kavanagh and Seamus Heaney and the love of landscape and placename. Continue reading
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Most of the stories date from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and many deal with miserable school experiences. You won’t be surprised to read of Bob Geldof tormenting the priests at Blackrock College by asking inconvenient religious questions, or Edna O’Brien recounting how she sinned by the hour Continue reading
The poetry of trans-Atlantic Eamonn Wall
Do children become the ‘littoral’ or interface that joins the émigré parent/s to the new homeland? Is the émigré in a transitioning state of ‘liminality’ until they have children born in the new country? Eamonn Wall says that having children connected him to his new home. Continue reading
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