UCC librarian wins Patrick Kavanagh poetry award

UCC’s head librarian John FitzGerald has won the prestigious Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award.

The €1,000 prize is awarded for a collection of poems by an Irish author or long-term resident of Ireland who has not been previously published in collected form.

It was presented to Mr FitzGerald last night by President Michael D Higgins at the Patrick Kavanagh Weekend in Inniskeen, Co Monaghan.