Swift Festival 2010Minister Noel Dempsey and Professor Andrew Carpenter officiated at the launch of this year's Swift Festival at the OPW headquarters in Trim Co. Meath. A building situated close to and overlooking the Boyne where the guests were treated to a champagne reception with some splendid speech making and none better than Professor Carpenter who managed to hold the crowd spellbound with insights into how the world must have looked to those unlucky enough to have lived in such interesting times. The night also saw the announcement of the prize winners in The Swift Satire Competition with our own Tommy Murray managing to snaffle third place from a short list that included entries from as far away as Canada and the USA, and I managed to creep onto it myself. Full details of the winners can be had by clicking on the link for Michael Farry opposite or the Boyne Writers' Site where they are sure to be posted. And now for The Battle of the Books on Sunday. Should I change horses or not? What would Lester have done?
Photos: Professor Andrew Carpenter, Tommy Murray, Dr Michael Farry, Dr James Ward, Noel French historian, and finally poet Tommy Murray and his wife Josephine with Minister Noel Dempsey.
2 comments:
Change your mind Frank a few times before Sunday 1pm!
Feeding the original entry more oats. If I get him out of the stalls ok and the ground's not too damp and he doesn't get boxed in on the corners and, one or two of the others go lame! It'll be easy!
FM.
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