An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure/June 2026!

 An Tobar ~ Poetry for Pleasure.

Greetings, 

A quick reminder that we have our poetry session
today (Tuesday 30th June) at 7.30pm.

The guiding theme: Poetry of WB Yeats. 

(By the way WB Yeats was born on the 13th June 1865)

And we have update on our Poetry Publishing Project. 

Slán go fóill 

Jim.

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The Meath Writers' Circle ~ July Meeting 2026!

The Meath Writers' Circle ~ July Meeting 2026!

The next meeting of our group takes place this Thursday night coming the 2nd of July in Trim Library, County Meath at 6.15pm and new members are always welcome. Membership is free and the library facilities are excellent so whether your interest is poetry or short stories or novels or music then we'd love to see you there. Hoping to have a book out by the end of the year if possible and that's always something to look forward to. See you there.

The Gift Of The View ~ Orla Fay!

The Gift Of The View ~ Orla Fay!

Orla Fay's second collection is a series of poems where the focus shifts from the everyday to the personal and where the gift is as much the view as of the lens through which she observes the world around her. Everything from the self-observed to remembering friends or those she has known or knows to patterns of war and conflict dipping into myths and mythologies both classical and local where she is as adept with words and references to detail as escape the ordinary. Published by Revival Press it retails at €15 Euro and is available in all good bookshops. One for your bookshelves. 

 

Kris Kristofferson ~ Jody and the Kid!

Kris Kristofferson ~ Jody and the Kid!

Almost slipped by but today is the anniversary of the birth of one of the greats of the American country/folk genre whose lists of accomplishments and achievements are almost impossible to measure. Recorded by just about everyone who was anyone he also starred in a number of films and was an academic by any standard. Loaded by Muos Karaoke and with thanks.

* If you're reading this please type his name into the search box top left for some other great songs.

Kris Kristofferson: June 22 1936 - September 28 2024

 

No Second Troy ~ Read by Sinéad O' Connor.

W.B. Yeats ~ No Second Troy. 

More than a few days late but a fine poem in honour of a fine poet who was a Nobel Prize winner and wrote some of our best remembered poems. Here the singer Sinéad O' Connor recites the poem he wrote about Maud Gonne. A muse perhaps. Loaded by 'National Library Ireland' and with thanks.

W.B. Yeats: 13 June 1865 - Jan 28 1939. 

James Joyce - Ulysses : Molly Bloom' Soliloquy, The Last 50 Lines.

 Bloom's Day: June 16 ~ 2026.

Leading on from Stephen Rea's yes yes yes, here's Angeline Ball in her award winning role. I think the Joycean scholar and Senator, David Norris once remarked that she was the best he'd ever seen in the role. So here's something to mark Bloom's Day. Came across an interesting piece on 'Finnegans Wake' with Finnegan's Wake the other day and must get back to it sometime. This video was posted by 'MichaelAskil' and with thanks. To Youtube for comments and further information.

Stephen Fry on Ulysses ~ James Joyce.

Stephen Fry on Ulysses ~ James Joyce.

Usually a day late but here I am a few days early so maybe I'll load something for Bloom's Day as well. Here Stephen Fry tells of why he thinks Ulysses is the best book ever written. Reading a book by Lord Dunsany at the moment where he recounts some of the escapades by the one Oliver St. John Gogarty, the gentleman who was in the Martello tower with Joyce and who fired a revolver in the early hours of the morning causing Joyce some discomfort I'm sure, though Joyce got his literary revenge later in Ulysses by modelling 'Stately Plump Buck Mulligan' on the same Oliver. Anyway that's how the story goes and they are endless. I'll stop and let you listen to Stephen who is one of the most interesting individuals out there. This video was loaded by 'Whyilovethis book' and with thanks.