Thanks to Munster Literature Centre and Salmon Poetry for keeping me in touch while I’m not there but also when I am, the fabulous The Salmon Bookshop & Literary Centre soothes my poetic mind. I LOVE Ireland and applaud Irish Month so sharing everywhere I’m able!
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination.
George Bernard Shaw
March is coming, and that means St. Patrick’s Day, but there’s much, much more to Irish culture than shamrocks (which, by the by, are NOT four-leaf clovers) and driving snakes out of the country (this never actually happened either). St Patrick wasn’t even Irish! He was born in Wales. Or Somerset. Or Scotland. But not in Ireland!
Ireland has a surface area of 32,000 square miles and a population of 6.4million meaning it is the same size as South Carolina and has the same number of inhabitants as Indiana. That’s right, it’s not big, but for such a small island it packs a hefty cultural punch:
Some of the world’s greatest plays, novels and poems.
Four Nobel Prize winners (Yeats, Shaw, Beckett and Heaney) … will their names be joined by John Banville, Emma Donoghue, Colum McCann or…
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