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"Preservation" from 'Bedside Manners' written to raise awareness for #FamilyCarers of loved ones with #Dementia and #Alzheimers
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✨Don't miss Irish Soprano Helen Hancock and pianist Ramin Haghjoo tomorrow, June 20th, at Thoor Ballylee, Galway!☘️
An evening of music featuring works of W.B. Yeats' poetry by composers including our own Ina Boyle!
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youtu.be/yaWnNs9-Y1I?... 'If you can't see through the veil, then dún do bhéal'.
Still love this. Hope he comes back with new poetry soon. 🤞 #irishpoets #irishpoetry #gaeilge #irishartist #irishlanguage
In out-of-the-way places of the heart, Where your thoughts never think to wander, This beginning has been quietly forming, Waiting until you were ready to emerge. For a long time it has watched your desire, Feeling the emptiness growing inside you, Noticing how you willed yourself on, Still unable to leave what you had outgrown. It watched you play with the seduction of safety And the gray promises that sameness whispered, Heard the waves of turmoil rise and relent, Wondered would you always live like this. Then the delight, when your courage kindled, And out you stepped onto new ground, Your eyes young again with energy and dream, A path of plenitude opening before you. Though your destination is not yet clear You can trust the promise of this opening; Unfurl yourself into the grace of beginning That is at one with your life's desire. Awaken your spirit to adventure; Hold nothing back, learn to find ease in risk; Soon you will home in a new rhythm, For your soul senses the world that awaits you.
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As I leave Connemara, it seems appropriate to post another poem by John O'Donohue.
For a New Beginning by John O'Donohue
We never really slept, just buried clocks in the sanctuary of night every time I moved you moved with me, winged eyelashes on your cheek returns a kiss small spaces of silence in between borrowed breaths arms tighten at the whisper of a name all the words of the heart the unanswered questions are at this moment blue rolling waves tonight our souls rest fragrant in spiritual essence candle-flamed, undamaged utterly belonging.
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Belonging by Eileen Carney Hulme
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet’s wings. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart’s core.
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
As a child, they could not keep me from wells And old pumps with buckets and windlasses. I loved the dark drop, the trapped sky, the smells Of waterweed, fungus and dank moss. One, in a brickyard, with a rotted board top. I savoured the rich crash when a bucket Plummeted down at the end of a rope. So deep you saw no reflection in it. A shallow one under a dry stone ditch Fructified like any aquarium. When you dragged out long roots from the soft mulch A white face hovered over the bottom. Others had echoes, gave back your own call With a clean new music in it. And one Was scaresome, for there, out of ferns and tall Foxgloves, a rat slapped across my reflection. Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime, To stare, big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring Is beneath all adult dignity. I rhyme To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.
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Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney
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Be sure to check out the poetry of #katherineriegal #katieriegal
LUAINA is available to purchase from luainpress.com and will be launched on Thursday April 24th in the Teacher’s Club on Parnell Square at 6:30 p.m. Copies available for €15. All are welcome!
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These are some of the brilliant #IrishPoets I've read:
Oscar Wilde
W.B. Yeats
Brendan Behan
Dermot Bolger
Séamus Heaney
Thomas Kinsella
Samuel Beckett
James Joyce
Patrick Kavanagh
If you can recommend contemporary Irish poets, I'm all ears!
This St Patrick’s weekend, we continue to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest poets in Ireland. We look forward to welcoming her to the Cork International Poetry Festival this May #irishpoets #irishlanguage
Watercolor St. Patrick's Day Postcard Collection
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St. Patrick's Day Irish Girl Irish Quote Holiday Postcard
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Watercolor St. Patrick's Day Irish Quote Yeats Holiday Postcard
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Text of poem "For Seamus Heaney"
Enjoyed finding this "For Seamus Heaney" by Elizabeth Jennings
in "Praises" published 1998 by @carcanet.bsky.social
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New Poem: Full-Colour Living... a jubilant Yay-saying poem about embracing life in all its ups and downs. #poetry #poem #poets #irishpoets #life #yes
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Softcover antique book "District and Circle: by Irish poet Seamus Heaney
"Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers."
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Seamus Heaney "Getting started, keeping going, getting started again — in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others."
Some thoughts from Seamus Heaney as we celebrate our 2024 Graduates as they move onto the next chapter🖋️
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The book of the poems of Dorothy Molloy on a Guitar amp
The Poems of Dorothy Molloy. Another great Irish poet ☘️💚
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Everything Is Going To Be All Right
By Derek Mahon
Read by Andrew Scott
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“The Clothes Shrine” by Seamus Heaney on Stone on the Belly.
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Absolutely loved recording this with poet (and law graduate) Julie Morrissey alongside @ruthhoughton.bsky.social.
Julie's documentary poetry is incredible. How it reformulates thining about #law & gender is worth everyone's time!
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