Michael O’Loughlin
I started school in St. Canice’s at the age of seven. My future comrade Dermot Bolger sat in the next door classroom, …
John Moriarty
‘In the eighteenth century Blake wrote two books – he wrote one called America, A Prophesy and the other called Europe A …
Anatoly Kudryavitsky
Anatoly was born in Moscow on Chekhov Street. That’s why his father, a great fan of Anton Chekhov, always called his son …
Judith Mok
Poetry is a pink apron. Recently, I remembered wearing a pink apron when I was nine years old and went to the …
Tom Mathews
Tom has been described by the Irish Times as “an Institution in Dublin for 30 years”. His own description is equally compelling:“Tom …
Philip Casey
My first memory is of standing in a hospital cot at night, looking over the cot bars to a rocking horse on …
Michael J. Farrell
Did I ever tell you about the time, when I was two going on three, I fell out of my crib, in …
Patrick Deeley
I grew up on the edge of a wetland meadow or Callows. The Callows was a wonderful place to get away to, …
Mary O’Donnell
I was born in Monaghan and grew up in a bewildering land of many-sided political opinion. On the one hand, the ‘North’ …