Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn.
An article for Maynooth University Dept. Adult & Community Education on my route to teaching in the further education sector.
Open Season.
Opinion piece in The Irish Times 23/12/2023..
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/12/23/some-of-us-need-a-way-out-of-the-seasonal-madness/
Letterkenny Literary Festival October 2022.
https://donegal.ie/live/whats-happening/letterkenny-cathedral-quarter-literary-festival
What an amazing festival it was. This year the theme was the environment and I opened the Saturday night session with a reading from my work in progress memoir of life on the land when I lived in the Gatehouse of J.P. Donleavy’s Mullingar estate.
On Sunday morning I was invited to read a poem at a lecture and performance piece dedicated to Brendan Behan in Paris. The presentation was given by Dr. Deirdre McMahon. The Elusive Theatre players performed a section of Behan’s play Borstal Boy My contribution was a rendition of Behan’s poem Oscar Wilde.