Naming Love makes its first official appearance alongside Ger Reidy’s new collection, Clay, in one of Mayo’s most iconic venues: Matt Molloy’s Yard Bar, Westport. Both books were launched by leading contemporary Irish visual artist Alice Maher (speech below). Music was by uilleann piper extraordinaire, Diarmaid Moynihan. Alice Maher’s launch speech: So I’ve spent the last two…

Issue 1, edited by Niamh Twomey. Includes my poem ‘Day Trip to Inisturk’.

Edited by Sarah Binchy. Includes my poem ‘Island Devotions’.

Edited by Jane Clarke, illustrations by Jane Carkill. Includes my poem ‘Sea Garden’.

Edited by Sarah Webb and Lucinda Jacob. Includes my poem ‘Three Wishes’.

Since before Michael Viney’s death, aged 90, on 30 May 2023, Vincent Murphy of Artisan Editions, Letterfrack, was busy preparing this beautiful book of Michael’s drawings and paintings, and the anecdotes behind them, for publication. It is a sad but great honour to launch Michael Viney’s Natural World on his home patch of Louisburgh.

My poem, ‘Bóithrín’, was chosen as one of six poems to be carved in limestone and displayed at points around Kiltimagh, Co Mayo. The other poems featured on the Poetry Trail are: Terry McDonagh, Ger Reidy, Seán Lysaght, Colette Nic Aodha and Daragh Byrne, winner of the 2022 Raftery Poetry Competition.