Person: Bernard O’Donoghue

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

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Book review: The Zoo of the New: Poems to Read Now

It’s a thankless task, editing a poetry anthology — by their very nature they attract criticism for who makes the final cut and who doesn’t. 

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When poetry is a curse and a gift

Aidan Murphy mines the events of his life, good and bad, for his poetry, writes Colette Sheridan.

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When the local feels universal for poet Bernard O'Donoghue

Cork poet Bernard O’Donoghue is on the shortlist for next week’s TS Eliot prize. He tells Colette Sheridan why, though he moved to the UK many years ago, his home area still has such a presence in his poetry.

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Evening briefing: Flights cancelled as snow finally hits. Catch up on all the headlines

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Finding the best Munster poems for anthology

Six things we know now that we didn’t know last month

Poetry and sport: Well versed in a game of inches and meters

A few years ago, someone suggested to me that sportswriters would be better advised to read poetry, specifically lyric poetry, rather than some of those vast, mannered chunks of American sportswriting that get cheered from the rafters (with relief, maybe, when the reader gets to the end).

Mon, 04 Jan, 2016

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Sun, 22 Jun, 2014

From Amergin’s invocation of Ireland to those who are shaping its future

Cork Literary Review volume XV

Sat, 28 Dec, 2013

Gathering focus for Cork Literary Review

Caitlin Doyle Her contribution is entitled ‘Hungry Hills: Coming of Age as an Irish American poet’.

Thu, 15 Aug, 2013

It seems there is an Aussie sporting lesson we could learn

I might as well admit it early doors and put it up on the table.

Mon, 02 Apr, 2012

Using distance to tell the truth — as he saw it

Farmers Cross

Sat, 11 Jun, 2011

Pining for Scots’ leaders of old

THESE are not golden days for the Scots.

Fri, 25 Feb, 2011

Buccs earn draw at St Mary's

St. Mary's College 14 Buccaneers 14

Sat, 04 Mar, 2006

Southern Lights

Whitbread Prize-winning poet Bernard O’Donoghue from Cork pauses from his work at Wadham College, Oxford to tell Michael Moynihan his memories of Cork-Kerry Munster finals.

Sat, 09 Jul, 2005

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