The Westmeath Arts Office invites local writers to apply for the Irish Writers Centre National Mentoring Programme 2023. The National Mentoring Programme is an opportunity for selected writers across the island of Ireland to receive sustained creative and professional mentoring from an established Irish writer of their choice. One Westmeath mentoring relationship is now on […]
Westmeath Libraries invite you to celebrate this Christmas with one of our local poets, Michael Walsh, a native of Fore, Co. Westmeath. In this collection, Red on the Holly published in the 1930s, Walsh shares with the reader a "gift book of Christmas song". Why not call in to your local library and have a […]
Join us in Mullingar Library for our Autumn Time Poetry Club with Paul Timoney, as part of our Local Live Performances. Express yourself in a friendly, fun-filled and supportive environment. Feel free to bring along your favourite poem, or your own compositions. No need to book, simply join us in the library from 6:00 to […]
A matinee of storytelling, prose, poetry, and extraordinary performances will take place on the 24th of September in theLibrary in Mullingar. With the support of Westmeath County Council, under the Local Live Performances Scheme (LLPS4), screenwriterand author Ronika Merl is bringing her celebrated show from Dublin to Mullingar.The show begins at 10.30am, in the Library […]
Leanne O’Sullivan is a young poet who hails from Cork. Her Collection entitled “Waiting for my Clothes”, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2004. Her full Works come across as brutally honest, and poignant, and a personal journey of the physical is mapped in detail. I hope that these snippets below portray the richness of […]
The following Patchwork Poem comprises Lines from the work of Fintan O’Toole, a lover of music and of words, and frequent visitor to Athlone Library in his time. The poems in full can be read in the fourth Collection by the local Poetry Collective called “Poetry in the Park”, and this was published in 2018 […]
Orfhlaith Foyle is an intriguing Wordsmith – a Poet, Novelist, Playwright and Short Story writer. Orfhlaith was born in Nigeria to Irish parents. Around 1976 she came St. Peter’s N.S., Athlone. She made a gentle entrance, not knowing how to us she was quite exotic. Her life and career took her to numerous countries, ensuring […]
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. Jill came tumbling after. London Bridge is falling down. Down came the rain and washed the spider out. Old Macdonald had a farm. Mary had a little lamb. Three little kittens have lost their mittens. Three blind mice, see how they run Row, row, row your boat gently down […]
Anne from Mullingar Library shares some of her favourite poems with us to help celebrate Poetry Ireland Day.
Is those things arms, or is they legs? (The Octopus By Ogden Nash) An owl’s cry, a most melancholy cry (The Owl By Thomas Hardy) A greyhound should be headed like a Snake, (The Properties of a Good Greyhound By Dame Juliana Berners) When I was once in Baltimore (Sheep By W.H. Davies) A snake […]