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Fifty shades of Behan

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Exactly half a century after first exhibiting his magnificent bronze sculptures at The Kenny Gallery in Galway, John Behan returns with Across the Bitter Sea.

Literary events at this year's Clifden Arts Festival

This year's 46th Clifden Arts Festival is set to uphold its tradition of nurturing artistic passion and fostering creative expression.

Achill Painters book to be launched 

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John F Deane, the Achill-born author and founder of Poetry Ireland, will be the special guest at the outdoor launch of ACHILL PAINTERS: An Island History, at 3pm on Saturday, August 1 in Dooagh, Achill.

Mary Robinson and the challenge of global survival

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“HOLDING HER first grandchild in her arms in 2003, Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday, he would have to share the planet with more than nine billion people - people battling for food, water and shelter in an increasing volatile climate. The faceless shadowy menace of climate change had become, in an instant, deeply personal.”

What is poetry?

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BACK IN the day, when the only poetry textbooks in our secondary schools were Intermediate Cert Poetry and Leaving Cert Poetry, should an intrepid pupil have the temerity to ask “What is poetry?” the answer generally given was “a lyric”.

 

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