Person: Louis MacNeice

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Considered work that takes time to reveal its quiet humour

James Finnegan's first collection of poetry is the work of a mature man with a teaching career behind him. His work has been highly commended by the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry competition, and published in Cyphers and The Irish Times, among others, writes Alannah Hopkin

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A question of taste - Eibhlís Carcione

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This visual poem for Dublin is just perfect

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This visual poem for Dublin is just perfect

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Life of poet is work in progress

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The unlikely poet who constructs his writing with a carpenter’s skill

The teachers who taught more than just a lesson

MOST mornings, I would have preferred to stay in bed than go to school: my shrunken uniform jumper, the politics of school corridors, monotone teachers, popularity contests (which I never won) and soggy sandwiches never appealed.

Sun, 19 May, 2013

Poet who talked in his letters

THE poet, Louis MacNeice died suddenly in 1963 of viral pneumonia, contracted while recording sound effects in an underground cave in Yorkshire for his last radio play, Persons from Porlock.

Sat, 14 Aug, 2010