This weeks guests are the Lucan Writers Group from Dublin.
Lucan writers group has been well established for many years now.
Members
have been short listed in the People's College Writing Competition, and
represented in Ireland's Own, Sunday Miscellany, the Hennessy New
Writers
Awards (5 nominations, 1 winner) both prose and poetry sections); and
quite a few have had poems and prose included in an anthology of works
compiled by Dermot Bolger called County Lines: A Portrait of Life in
South
Dublin County (New Island).
Some were invited to read their work at the
annual Readers Day in the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght.
A number of them have been interviewed on local radio stations and were
highly commended for a radio story competition by Liffey Sound 96.4FM
and
read our work on air. And this year six have entered for the Francis
McManus Awards on RTC9 Radio 1.
One member collaborated on Treasures of
Lucan - a book portraying the beauty and the history to be found in and
around our Village with its wonderful Demesne walks, while another is in
the process of setting up a Junior Writers Group in Clondalkin.
Two of the group have completed novels that are wending their way to
publishers; and four more novels are in gestation.
Last December a Lucan
Creative Writers Group poet had a poem chosen for the 2008 Oxfam Ireland
calendar - other contributors to this calendar include Seamus Heaney and
Mary O'Malley.
And a television programme City Loops, soon to be
featured
on RT=C9 1, will feature another member.
Last year, thanks to Library funding, they published their own anthology
-
Caught in Amber - which was edited by Eileen Casey and launched by
Dermot
Bolger.
Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Bloghttp//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.com
The White House Poetsgratefullyacknowledges the support of the Arts Council, Foras na Gaeilge and PoetryIreland.
The White House Poetry Revival has being going now for over four years. Every Wednesday the famous old world bar is transformed into a centre of culture as poets recite their latest work. Barney Sheehan and Dominic Taylor , the people behind the revival of poetry at the White House, continue to attract the best of Irish and International poetry to Limerick. The reading has provided an open, supportive venue for countless poets to perform their work, and has fostered a community of poetry. Over the last four years the reading has grown, evolved and matured. We are proud to have provided an open-mic for poets from all over Ireland, Europe and the world: from Buddy Wakefield to Greg Delanty to hundred of others you have never heard, but should have. The reading continues to grow and change and we would invite you to come down, to listen - and should the mood strike you - to speak.
The White House Poets would like to acknowledge the involvement of the Arts Council, Poetry Ireland, Foras na Gaeilge, Limerick City Council, http://www.limerick.com/ and the White House Bar for their continued support, all of whom helped make the White House one of the pre eminent venues for poetry in Ireland. As usual the reading is preceded by an open mic session in which anyone who wishes to read is invited to do so. Complementary finger food is provided and proceeding commence at 9.00 pm.
The project is supported by Limerick City Council Arts Office
Info: Dominic Taylor 087 2996409 or Barney Sheehan 086 8657494 Blog http//:whitehousepoets.blogspot.com
The White House Poets gratefully acknowledges the support of the Arts Council, Foras na Gaeilge and Poetry Ireland.
Email whitehousepoets@eircom.net Website http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets/ Blog http://whitehousepoets.blogspot.com/
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Website: http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets/
E-mail: whitehousepoets@eircom.net
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Revival: http://revivalpoetrybook.blogspot.com/
How To get There
The White House pub is located in the centre of Limerick City at 52 O'Connell Street. Its exact location is on the corner of Glentworth Street and O'Connell Street, opposite the Ulster Bank and the Bank of Ireland. It is approximately 5 minutes walk from the train and bus station - exit the station and go down Davis Street, pass Taits Clock continue on down Glentworth Street and the White House is on the right hand corner at end of street.
Map http://www.limerick.com/streets/map.html
Visit the WhiteHousePoets and friends here:
http://www.limerick.com/whitehousepoets/thepoets.html
Buy the White House Anthology http://www.limerick.com/anthology.html
