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<p>Stephen Connolly, who was curator for the 2023 Listowel Writers Week, has recollected of how he felt alienated and being told he “wasn’t really Irish”. Photo: Kerry's Eye</p>

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Mick Clifford: Will Listowel Writers' Week be the rock on which reunification flounders?

An ongoing row about the running of Listowel Writers' Week culminated in a difficult year for its most recent curator, Northern Irish poet Stephen Connolly.

<p>Cork city centre is getting a Poetry as Commemoration jukebox, similar to the installation at St Stephen's Green, Dublin. Picture: Jason Clarke </p>

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Word on the street is Cork to get poetry jukebox

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For all its critics, we should remember football can be poetry in motion

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FIRST THOUGHTS: Irish poets on the origins of their work

Nobody has moved us like Colm Cooper

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Championship Preview: In Kerry, the well of tradition is there to be drawn from. But it will no longer win an All-Ireland

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

Are we really all in this together?

Our columnist examines the reasons behind the ever-increasing tendency of county players to jump ship to the USA in the middle of the championship season

Sat, 08 Jun, 2013

Where talk is favoured over the TV

John B Keane’s pub in Listowel remains the haunt of poets, storytellers and musicians, writes Dónal Hickey

Thu, 31 May, 2012

Take it as read ...

Listowel Writers’ Week enjoys such a reputation that major figures are more than happy to be invited, says Carl Dixon

Fri, 11 May, 2012

Kingdom on the road to redemption?

“No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out” - Al Gore

Sat, 25 Jul, 2009

Disbelief in quiet village at violent deaths of ‘pillars of community’

ON a sunny day when the spectre of violent death visited the tranquil farming countryside of north Kerry, signs of new life were, ironically, everywhere to be seen.

Fri, 28 Mar, 2008

Sequel scoops top prize for Doyle

NOVELIST and screenwriter Roddy Doyle last night won the €10,000 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award at the opening of Listowel Writers’ Week.

Thu, 31 May, 2007

Legendary fiddler Duggan to receive music award

EVER since he purchased his first fiddle for two old pounds at the age of 14, Mikey Duggan has been an integral part of the traditional music scene in the Sliabh Luachra area, straddling the Cork/Kerry border.

Wed, 25 Oct, 2006

Kennelly festival opens with busy programme

ONE of Kerry’s best-known literary figures will be honoured at a festival, which opened in his home village last night.

Fri, 11 Aug, 2006

‘Forgotten genius’ of theatre

THE work of a long-forgotten Kerry playwright, who has been described as a forerunner of John B Keane and Bryan MacMahon, could be in for a revival following publication of his biography.

Tue, 13 Dec, 2005

International poetry event ‘will exclude Limerick’

THE witty ditty known worldwide as the Limerick has been banished from a poetry festival launched yesterday in the city that gave the famous poem its name.

Tue, 12 Oct, 2004