Distance is Ron Carey's debut collection of poetry and announces him as a poet of honesty, skill and directness.
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Book Launch: Shades of Red by Vivienne McKechnie 7.30pm The People’s Museum of Limerick.
Book Launch: Shades of Red by Vivienne McKechnie (Revival Press) Wednesday, 7.30pm The People’s Museum of Limerick, 2 Pery Sq., Limerick Revival Press is proud to announce the launch of Shades of Red, the powerful new poetry collection from Limerick poet Vivienne McKechnie, taking place at 7.30pm in The People’s Museum of Limerick. The launch...
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Winning Poem Announced in the Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition 2026
George Syranidis Announced as Winner of the Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition 2026 The Limerick Writers’ Centre is delighted to announce George Syranidis (UK) as the winner of the Desmond O’Grady International Poetry Competition 2026 with his winning poem The Cistern. The announcement was made last night during the much‑anticipated Desmond O’Grady Memorial Reading, an event, held...
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Shades of Red by Vivienne McKechnie
In this deeply personal collection, Vivienne McKechnie traces the contours of loss and love across the Irish landscape. From the horror of Tuam's unmarked graves to the tender goodbye at Shannon Airport, from beloved pets laid to rest under apple trees to children building lives across oceans, these poems map the geography of memory and separation. Whether exploring family trauma, climate crisis, or the simple magic of a half moon before a music exam, she finds beauty and meaning in both the monumental and the everyday.
Shades of Red is a collection about the distances between us, between parent and child, past and present, human and animal; and the love that persists across every gap.
(NOTE: Available from Wed 22nd April 2026)
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LIMERICK WRITERS’ CENTRE ANNOUNCES THE 2025 DESMOND O’GRADY MEMORIAL READING
The Limerick Writers’ Centre, in association with Poetry Ireland, proudly presents the 2025 Desmond O’Grady Memorial Reading on Wednesday, April 16th, 2025, at 7:30 PM. This prestigious literary event will take place at The People’s Museum of Limerick, 2 Pery Square. The evening will feature three distinguished poets: John Liddy, Ron Carey, and Anne Fitzgerald,...
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Back to Infinity by Rachael Stanley
Rachael Stanley’s thoughtful and considered debut collection ‘Back To Infinity’ speaks to us from a hard-earned place of compassionate distance. Here is a poet who has alchemised her life experience to produce work that honours the here and now and points to what lies beyond. Whether writing about the complexity and contradictions of familial relationships, the interplay between the ego and the self, our desire for true freedom, the solace of nature or the challenges of technology, these honest and appreciative poems celebrate what it means to be fully alive, to pay attention to the god in every detail - in the midst of potato skins glistening shiny and wet. With its fresh language, range of topics and a wide variety of styles and forms, ‘Back To Infinity’ is a collection that will keep its many readers happily curled up on the sofa for hours.
- Anne Tannam, Writer in Residence, Poetry Ireland
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Four Book Launch from Revival Press in April
Revival Press, Limerick are proud to publish four poetry titles during April is Poetry Month in Limerick 2024. First up on the 5th April 7.30pm in The People’s Museum of Limerick, 2 Pery Square is ‘Weeds United’ from Mike MacDomhnaill. Bi-lingual writer Mike Mac Domhnaill has five books to his name in both Gaelic and...
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Slipstreaming (In the West of Ireland) by Jim Burke and John Liddy
In 1972, driven by a desire to break free from constraints and delve into their poetic selves, the authors, Jim Burke and John Liddy, set out from Limerick on their bicycles, venturing through the wondrous terrain of the West of Ireland. Their journey was documented with reflections, resulting in this retrospective fifty years later, rich in prose and poetry. John and Jim, as kindred spirits, celebrate the enchantment of Connemara and Clare, navigating between gathering seaweed and marvelling at beautiful lofty things.
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An Apology for Our Survival by Michael Farry
With An Apology for Our Survival, Michael Farry enhances his already excellent reputation as craftsman-poet of the highest order. His multifaceted and insightful poems, full of tenderness and understanding of the human condition, shine up from every page. We are lucky to have such a fine poet among us.
—Ron Carey, author of Songs for Older Life, Racing Down the Sun and Distance.
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Songs for Older Life by Ron Carey – (Hardback)
In this new poetry collection, Songs for Older Life, Ron Carey has undertaken to celebrate some creative individuals who blossomed in the afternoons, twilights and late evenings of their lives. Some of these are very famous, others are not so well known. But within these pages you will discover in their stories an endless source of encouragement and want to find out more about them.
In highlighting each individual, Ron Carey has written a poem inspired by their story.
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