The Limerick Writers’ Centre & Lime Square Poets
Present
The October ‘First Wednesday Series’ Wed 1st Oct 2025 7.30pm

Special guest reader this month is James Finnegan.

James Finnegan, Dublin born, was the second-prize winner in the 2022 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Competition and was shortlisted in the 2021 Bridport Poetry Prize and in the 2018 Hennessy Literary Awards for Emerging Poetry. James, who taught in St Eunan’s College for thirty-three years, holds a doctor of philosophy in living educational theory from the University of Bath (2001), and is
now retired and has grown into a deeper commitment to reading and writing poetry since November, 2014. A recent poetry collection, The Weather-Beaten Scarecrow (Doire Press, 2022) was shortlisted in the National Farm Gate Poetry Award in April 2023. James and Livinia, along with their six-year-old springer spaniel Daisy, live in Co Donegal a few kilometres outside Letterkenny

Everyone is invited to take part in the open-mic after the main event, poets, storytellers, musicians and writers. Even if you don’t write you are welcome to bring something along to read. The night begins at 7.30pm and admission is free. So join us on the night and make this event something special.

NOTE: Our special authors book table will again be in operation, so if you want your book, CD’s etc publicised make sure you are represented on the table. Contact Dominic Taylor at 087 2996409 to make arrangements.