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'Much of the raw material that ripples through the stories comes from Kiely’s early garrison-town years in the Unionist-controlled Six Counties.' Cahal Dallat on writing by an Irish master of the short story the-tls.co.uk/literature/a-b…

Join us for Summer Poetry in🌻#BedfordPk, #Yeats's boyhood London neighbourhood Sun 15 Jun, 2-30-5pm 'Land of Heart's Desire': WB Yeats Literary Walk🚶with Cahal Dallat celebrating #BedfordPk's 150th🎂and #WBY's 160th! book now: tinyurl.com/summer-poetry-… info: tinyurl.com/YeatsBedfordPk…

What a stunning morning in Sligo town

'I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky, And at every drifting cloud that went With sails of silver by.' [O. W.]

🌻Bedford Park's 150th anniversary exhibition, created by local historians (incl. Cahal Dallat on Discover🌻Bedford Park🌻with the young WB Yeats📱) with the whole story (flowing through to now) narrated/curated beautifully by Bedford Park Society's Nick Mesquita Next on show 10-20/06 Chiswick Auctions Gallery W4 4PH.

Join us in June evening light for a kaleidoscope of poems of 'night & light & the half-light', thu 12 jun, BedfordParkFestival yeats-birthday poetry evening, with special guest christopher reid plus guest poets, hosted by Anne-Marie Fyfe & Cahal Dallat see: tinyurl.com/of-night-and-l… 🌻

Super Sunday visit to Dulwich (open) studio of Cushendun/London painter Katy English (📷with Cahal Dallat ) & her intriguing explorations of natural patterns, spider webs, & fragile intertwining roots. And great to meet Katy's family, friends & fellow artists over al fresco lunch.

Deeply saddened to hear Paul Durcan has died, a significant early inspiration and encouragement personally, as well as being a unique witness to our lives and times. Loved introducing his 2016 Armagh The John Hewitt Society Summer School reading, after which we talked of his Ballycastle... 1/2

2/2 great-grandfather, of Yeats + Maud Gonne, as we'd done over the years since we first met, and then, that night, in the 1916 centenary year, of the tragedy, for his grandparents (Maj. John MacBride's brother Joseph, and Gonne's half-sister Eileen Wilson), of John's execution.

"And did those feet…" Sunday stroll with (in spirit) William Blake, thnx2 William Blake Fellowship. With guide Simon Clarke, by sylvia plath's Chalcot Sq address + her later Fitzroy Rd home where #Yeats had lived as a child, to top of #PrimroseHill with London’s charter’d streets below

Join us for Summer Poetry in🌻#BedfordPk🌻 Thu 12 Jun, 'Night and Light and the Half-Light': #Yeats-Birthday Poetry Evening with special guest Christopher Reid plus guest poets hosted by: Anne-Marie Fyfe and Cahal Dallat book: tinyurl.com/summer-poetry-……info: tinyurl.com/YeatsBedfordPk…

Join us for Summer Poetry in🌻#BedfordPk🌻, #Yeats's boyhood London neighbourhood Sun 15 Jun, 2-30-5pm 'Land of Heart's Desire': WB Yeats Literary Walk🚶with Cahal Dallat celebrating #BedfordPk's 150th🎂#WBY's 160th! book now: tinyurl.com/summer-poetry-… info: tinyurl.com/YeatsBedfordPk…

CFA Voysey, d. #otd 1941, lived in Blandford Rd, nxt2 #Yeats family's BlenheimRd🌻#BedfordPk home, designed this v. un-BedfordPk house just round the corner from Etta Paget, Florence Farr's sister + #JBY's art-school contemporary, and his Trinity College Dublin friend, poet John Todhunter.

CFA Voysey also designed the Sanderson Building in Chiswick's Barley Mow Passage (W4 4PH) where – in Chiswick Auctions's Gallery – the Bedford Park Society's exhibition celebrating 150 years of the Arts-&-Crafts "first-garden-suburb" will be on display from 10th to 20th June.

Countess Markievicz: Don’t trust to your ‘feminine charm’ .. but take up your responsibilities and be prepared to go your own way, depending for safety on your own courage, your own truth and your own common sense

Sea thrift season in full bloom here in Sligo too John john creedon 🌸

#otd 1889 #Yeats lectures to Southwark Irish Literary Society on poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-49): "Mangan of the Dark Rosaleen...our one poet raised to the first rank by intensity". Mangan also translated Irish, Turkish, Arabic, Persian and German poets incl. Hafez + Goethe

📚Biographer John F Ryan + journalist Dorothy Allen @IrishLItSoc @MyICC with insights into the complex life of Arts-&Crafts enthusiast Fr Jeremiah O'Donovan who commissioned The Yeats Sisters' banners for Loughrea cathedral and later became anti-clerical novelist Gerald O'Donovan.

'Dear Loll': great theatre Wilton's Music Hall last night in daily letters, intimate, quotidian, often anxious, between Alice, struggling with WWII conditions, & Gerard Fay, coping with army life, D-Day landings - & survival! Beautifully adapted by Rosanna Greenstreet & Matthew Fay