Being the one-man band behind Irish Writers Online, I get a lot of requests for links, and of course I do my best, but being as human as the next, I find that courtesy goes a long way. Muiris Ó Meara wrote me the following email, and I’m quoting in in full because I appreciate [...]
This is Robert Kennedy’s impromtu speech announcing the death of Martin Luther King Jnr. He asked the crowd for “an effort to understand, compassion and love.” Then he said: My favorite poet was Aeschylus. And he once wrote, “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in [...]
GREACEN Robert Henry (Sandymount and formerly London and Belfast) – April 13, 2008, aged 87 years, at St Vincent’s University Hospital, husband of the late Patricia Hutchins and loved father of Arethusa. Poet and member of Aosdana. Sadly missed by his family and his circle of friends and fellow writers. Memorial Service (following private cremation) [...]
There is a fascinating excerpt from Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing, by Katherine Ashenburg in today’s London Times. Excerpt from Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing, The Times, London In the spirit of the book, I thought I’d quote My Masculine Skin, from my last book of poems, Dialogue in Fading Light (Dublin, New [...]