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| Martina Quinn and Paddy Smith |
Martina Quinn was the gracious host on Thursday night when she invited guests and members of the local writing groups to her house on Loman Street in Trim for an event to mark the Bealtaine festival. MC'd if that's the word by Paddy Smith of The Boyne Writers, who did his usual excellent job of keeping things moving along and only had to resort to the bell for the occasional extra vowel, or verse that was never intended. Michael Farry deserves much credit for arranging the get together and there were some very beautiful poems read and pieces of prose that were both interesting and challenging. Martina gave a short talk on the history of the house, which has been occupied since 1751 when it was first built and more information on this if you click on the link to Michael Farry's site over to the right. On a theme of "And catch the heart of guard" from Seamus Heaney's poem "Postscript" the night went some way to perhaps just that.
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