Person: Deirdre Brennan

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<p>Deirdre Brennan won the Farmgate National Poetry Award as part of the International Poetry Festival in Cork.</p>

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Sarah Harte: Ageism that pervades our society is both short-sighted and irrational

Do older people have a best-before date creatively?Last week as part of the Cork International Poetry Festival, Deirdre Brennan won the Farmgate National Poetry Award for her collection, Medea’s Cauldron, which is published by Arlen House.

<p>Poet Deirdre Brennan is the winner of the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award, part of the International Poetry Festival in Cork. Picture: David Creedon</p>

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Irish Examiner view: Poetry in motion

<p>The Dublin-born former Oireachtas Prize winner, who grew up in Tipperary, was born in 1934 and has lived in Carlow since 1965. She studied English and Latin at UCD followed by a Higher Diploma in Education, and is a bilingual writer of poetry, short stories, and drama. Picture: David Creedon</p>

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Bilingual writer, 89, wins Farmgate Café National Poetry Award

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Clinical Cork timing challenge to perfection

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Book Review: Leabhar na hAthghabhála - Poems of Repossession

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Sat, 15 Jan, 2011

Killester put title on the line

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Tough for Demons as Eagles swoop in

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