Paddy Donoghue
@Paddyrun1
Poetry collection, Leave Taking (2024) My things: poetry, writing, reading, the wonderful outdoors, all things creative. Solitude and silence, absence of noise.
#TDFF2025 Irish champion Mia Griffin on the start line today at the Tour de France with fellow national champions from Czech Republic, Chile and Canada - Kristýna Burlová, Catalina Anais Soto and Alison Jackson 😍 Photo | Thomas Maheux
#TDF2025 Let's get re-tweeting this to make sure the most combative rider of the Tour de France, Ben Healy, is awarded the prize he deserves
🔁 RT if you think 🇮🇪 Ben Healy is the Super-combative of the #TDF2025! 🔁 RT si vous pensez que 🇮🇪 Ben Healy est le Super-combatif du #TDF2025 !
🔁 RT if you think 🇮🇪 Ben Healy is the Super-combative of the #TDF2025! 🔁 RT si vous pensez que 🇮🇪 Ben Healy est le Super-combatif du #TDF2025 !
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The Frances Browne Poetry Competition celebrates the power of language — in English, Irish, or Ulster-Scots — and the voices that rise from every corner of life. Is cuma más é do chéad dán é — tá fáilte romhat linn. 📝 Enter by 20 Aug 🔗 francesbrowneliteraryfestival.com/poetry-competi… #poetrylovers
Wendy Cope, born on this day, 21st July 1945 - Her poetry is generally regarded as humorous and light-hearted. A lover of life and living it fully. I love this form, the Villanalle, and sometimes use this poem of hers in workshops as a fine example of the form. Difficult form???
Two poems from the wonderful Elizabeth Jennings - born on this day, 18th July 1926 (died 26th Oct. 2001). I've recently gone back to reading her work and had forgotten how much I enjoyed it. Her poems and her faith were cornerstones in her life. @poetryireland @PoetrySociety
On this day 98 years ago Countess Markievicz died. The poor of Dublin honoured her kindness to them - 300,000 attended her funeral procession from the Pillar Room at the Rotunda to the Republican Plot at Glasnevin. We honour her.
Born the son of a poor labourer in Peterborough on this day, JOHN CLARE - forsaken by family and friends, he died in a lunatic asylum, having spent the last 22 years of his life there. He famously wrote; "If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs." Wise words!
Arrived this morning, thank you, @KennysBookshop Looking forward to picking my way through thi one... @poetryireland @poetrylovers @artscouncil_ie
Percy Bysshe Shelley drowned on this day in 1822 when his small sailing boat sank... One of his little sonnets to mark the day. @poetryireland @poetrylovers
Words can not describe how heartbroken and devastated we are... Your smile, your love for the game will never be forgotten. We will miss you so much, but you will stay with us forever, on and off the pitch. Our thoughts and prayers are with your family. Rest in peace, brother
It’s so difficult to find the right words when your head and heart are struggling to accept that someone you care so much about has gone. Diogo, your family was your world. They were everything. For Rute, his children, and his parents, all of our hearts are broken. And for Andre…
Recently, I have been reading Elizabeth Jennings' work, and the more I read, the more I feel drawn to it. It stirs something in my being... She is quoted as saying, "My poems and my faith are the most important things in my life." @poetryireland @poetrylovers @Poetry_Daily
American novelist Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) died on this day after accidentally shooting himself while cleaning a gun. Hemingway is famous for, when challenged, to write a six word complete story. He returned the following day with... FOR SALE: BABY SHOES NEVER WORN.
Vona Groarke and Ciaran Berry will talk about and read from their recently published collections: INFINITY POOL and STATES 👇👇 @poetryireland @artscouncil_ie
#Donegal NEXT SATURDAY 5th July #SandrasRun Great for spectators & if you're a #biker join in this great charity event. Keep an eye out for all the teddy bears too! The route: #Killybegs #Kilcar #Carrick #Ardara #Glenties #Dungloe #Derrybeg #Gweedore #motorbikes
It's finally here... Today is #YourCouncilDay, a day where we join council's around the country and focus on all of the amazing work that our staff do every day Join us as as we celebrate our county, our communities and our staff who make it all possible #Donegal #YourCouncil
Poem of the day from Scottish poet Robert Burns... Died at 37 years of age in 1796 and it's estimated that ten thousand (10,000) people followed his coffin to the grave... @ScottishPoetry @poetryireland @PoetrySociety @Poetry_Daily #poetrylovers
Born on this date, 23rd June 1889 in Odessa - Poet and activist, ANNA AKHMATOVA, become one of the great female Russian poets I give you one piece from her poem sequence, REQUIEM, which was banned at the time because she wrote it as a personal response to Stalinist oppression.
