Clodagh Finn: The toe-curling poem that led to the rediscovery of Sarah Curran

Sarah Curran is remembered as the tragic figure whose fiancé Robert Emmet was executed, but she was also an important member of a completely overlooked network of literary women in Cork, writes Clodagh Finn

Trish Sissons, a Dublin-based Canadian writer is inviting people to read their “cringiest diaries/poems/song lyrics/chat logs/Tumblr feeds” in 'Angst from the Archive' on November 6.

I’m very sorry I didn’t keep it, the cringe-making poem I once wrote that told the story of the doomed Irish Rebellion of 1798 in sing-songy verse.

One of the couplets — although that is far too grand a name for it — rhymed ‘schooner’ with ‘sooner’. Something along the lines of: “They sent all the way to France for a schooner/ It was such a pity it didn’t come sooner.”