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World Poetry Day – Christy Brown, Background Music

Today is World Poetry Day and one of my favourite Irish poets is Christy Brown. Obviously Christy Brown is mostly known for his autobiography My Left Foot, which features in my list of 100 Irish Novels, but in his short career he also published two novels (Down All the Days and Wild Grow The Lilies)…

Announcing Reading Ireland Month!

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination. George Bernard Shaw March is coming, and that means St. Patrick’s Day, but there’s much, much more to Irish culture than shamrocks (which, by the by, are NOT four-leaf clovers) and driving snakes out of the country (this never actually happened either). St Patrick wasn’t…