About this event Samhain Limerick’s Hallowe’en Festival proudly presents /the return of The Limerick Writers Centre performing Samhain themed poetry & prose in the cool surrounds of Treaty City Brewery. Dominic Taylor, John Liddy Mike MacDomhnaill & a special rendition of Drunken Thady & the Bishop’s Lady by Pat Power. Music and song form special […]
Becoming a Writer. In this ten-part part Series Kieran Beville aims to inspire, encourage and assist aspiring writers to fulfil their dreams to become authors.
The Novel No writer of the first order needs the formula any more than a sound man needs a crutch. In his simplest moods, when he is seeking to amuse, he does not manufacture a plot, he tells a story. (George Bernard Shaw) Writing a novel is about telling a story. This involves preparing a […]
An Island of Scribes and Bards – Part 3 Limerick Literary Legends – Poets
An Island of Scribes and Bards – Part 3 Limerick Literary Legends – Poets by Kieran Beville Kieran Beville – Proud Limerick-man and former teacher of English Literature – concludes a three part series on Irish writers, notably Limerick authors, showcasing their immense contribution to Ireland’s rich literary heritage. This week the focus is on […]
An Island of Scribes and Bards – Part 2 Limerick Literary Legends – Novelists
An Island of Scribes and Bards – Part 2 Limerick Literary Legends – Novelists By Kieran Beville Kieran Beville – Proud Limerick-man and former teacher of English Literature – continues in this second article of a three part series on Irish writers, notably Limerick authors, showcasing their immense contribution to Ireland’s rich literary heritage. This […]
An Island of Scribes and Bards. Part 1 – The Big Picture by Kieran Beville
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]