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Artistic achievements

Poet Deirdre Brennan is the winner of the Farmgate Café National Poetry Award, part of the International Poetry Festival in Cork. Picture: David Creedon

Congratulations to Deirdre Brennan, who has won this year’s Farmgate Café National Poetry Award for her collection Medea’s Cauldron, published by Arlen House.

Her win is all the more notable because she started writing in her 50s, writes in both English and Irish, and won the award this week at the age of 89.