by Catherine Ryan, Digital Collections Student Bloomsday On the 16th of June, 1954 the first Bloomsday was celebrated in Ireland. Flann O’Brien, Patrick Kavanagh, Anthony Cronin, Tom Joyce and John Ryan met in Dublin to trace the Ulysses route, starting at the Martello Tower in Sandycove through Sandymount Strand and on towards the shadier parts […]
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by Nora-Jane Thornton, National Photographic Archive (and Unashamed Romantic) Closure, not the most romantic of sentiments, seems to be the message of this letter. It was written by the poet, Patrick Kavanagh in May 1945 to Hilda Moriarty, a young medical student whom he had met the previous year. In it he seems to acknowledge […]
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![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1972/30323268457_668230fd17.jpg ""Street scene, featuring terraced housing and pedestrians : possibly a promenade" is Warrenpoint")
![](https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1917/30279424327_fc94a6f512.jpg ""Europe leaning to the right" is Antwerp")
