Exciting times … I’m coming back to Ireland this October to read some poems in what is set to be my most extensive tour there yet*: 17th: BELFAST, Mandela Hall18th: DUBLIN, Ambassador Theatre19th: LIMERICK, Lime Tree Theatre20th: DERRY, Millennium Forum Tickets are on sale here: https://brianbilston.com/events/. Book now to guarantee disappointment. * previous record =…
Dublin
On a Sunday in the summer of 1970, we were all herded up to the little church in Cúil Aodha for Mass. We were city kids sent to this small and remote village in County Cork to learn Irish from the native speakers. Their little chapel was gray, pebble-dashed, with no steeple, more like a […]
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