UCC librarian wins Patrick Kavanagh poetry award

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

UCC librarian wins Patrick Kavanagh poetry award
Sat, 27 Sep, 2014 - 01:00
Colette Sheridan

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.

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