Kieran Beville – Proud Limerick-man and former teacher of English Literature – begins a three part series on Irish writers and notably Limerick authors, showcasing their immense contribution to Ireland’s rich literary heritage. It seems that every other person in Ireland is a writer or an aspiring writer. This is reflected in the […]
Praise and a Poem for Liddy’s ‘Arias of Consolatuion’
IN SPAIN I CAME TO MY SENSES For John Liddy in Madrid: 1. In Spain I saw lightning strike Twice: bull’s eye, blue eye. Blinding. Twice. Caught in a storm of not being There for the original sin, I revisited Eden. Selling apples with poems at their core. Learning by heart that I speak […]
Limerick poet John Liddy remembers Desmond O’Grady and Ezra Pound
EZRA POUND AND DESMOND O’ GRADY Much has been written by eminent critics on Ezra Pound’s relationship with William Butler Yeats, James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. We have, amongst other sources, an account by James Longbeach of Pound remembering the three winters (1913-1916) he spent living with William Butler Yeats at Stone Cottage near the […]
Limerick-man Kieran Beville, former tutor in the Irish History Department at University College Cork, remembers the start of “The Troubles” in the North of Ireland.
Remembering the Start of “The Troubles” 50th Anniversary Civil Rights March – Derry – 5th October 1968 It was just a couple of years after the fiftieth-anniversary of the 1916 Rising and I was a pupil at CBS, Hassett’s Cross. The Christian Brothers celebrated that event and I remember winning a bronze plaque of Pádraig […]
Limerick First Edition Publications No.7 ‘Limerick Property News’
New Arts Funding Announced for Entertainment Sector
€5m Fund Announced to Support Reopening of Arts, Music and Entertainment Businesses The Commercial Entertainment Capital Grant Scheme (CECGS) offers grants of €25k to organisations and companies reopening for staff, classes and audiences. A new funding scheme to support businesses working in the arts and entertainment sector has just been announced by the Department of […]
Taxi for Elvis by Kieran Beville
Taxi for Elvis After my daughter’s graduation ceremony a few years ago in University College Cork I was invited to have refreshments in the Aula Maxima. That ‘Great Hall’ is a capacious and impressive room with gilt-framed portraits of past presidents of the college adorning its wood-panelled, high walls. It was the first time I […]
The unknown inside story of Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes” on its 25th anniversary
How a bar in Greenwich Village, NYC played two important parts in the creation of Frank McCourt’s beloved novel. IrishCentral Staff @IrishCentral Sep 30, 2021 The tale of how the Lion’s Head bar along with three women Mary Breasted, Molly Friedrich, and Ellen McCourt led to the publication of “Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir”, published […]
THEO DORGAN ON KIERAN BEVILLE’S LATEST COLLECTION OF POEMS – VOICES FROM THE VOID
The unconsidered human impulse is to wrap grief and pain in pious formulas, in slack received wisdom, in platitudes and worn-out phrases. Pain always threatens to become unbearable, and indeed it often is unbearable to anyone locked in the prison of the self. We have songs and stories, poems, dance, painting and theatre to lift […]
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