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| Christopher Gray |
For those of you with an hour or two to spare or an interest in the poetry world then Higginsbrook House Trim County Meath is the venue this Sunday for the launch of a selection of poems by F R Higgins. Frederick Robert Higgins was born in Foxford County Mayo in 1896 but spent his summers with his cousins at Higginsbrook and many of his poems are about Meath and the Boyne. This present selection is compiled by Dardis Clarke and Aidan Gray, a cousin of the poet and has an introduction by Joseph Woods of Poetry Ireland. Dardis Clarke was a son of Austin Clarke and I note from The Meath Chronicle that he passed away earlier this year. There is much more information in this week's edition of the paper and if you click on Michael Farry's blog over to the right some interesting material there as well and in more detail. The Scurlogstown Olympiad group and the late Tommy Murray and other members of The Meath Writers' Circle visited the grave each year to lay a wreath and this year's ceremony was performed by Christopher Gray who read the poem "Father and Son". The book will also be launched at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin on Monday and at The Mayfly Hotel, Foxford, County Mayo on Tuesday, If you want to hear a reading of the poem "Father and Son" then none other than Pierce Brosnan can be heard over on youtube.
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