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FEB 2012 'ON THE NAIL' LITERARY EVENING

The Limerick Writers' Centre Presents Tuesday 7th Feb 2012 @ 8.00pm February 'On The Nail' Reading Upstairs@Foley's Bar, Sarsfield St, Limerick (Limericks Newest Live Venue for Music and the Arts) Organised by The Limerick Writers' Centre this popular monthly reading and open-mic continues to attract audiences with a mix of poetry, prose and music. This month (Feb) our guests are from Newcastle (UK) Dr. Keith Armstrong and Robert Lonsdale. Keith Armstrong was born in Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, where he has worked as a community development worker, poet, librarian and publisher he is coordinator of the Northern Voices creative writing and community publishing project which specialises in recording the experiences of people in the North East of England. He was awarded a doctorate in 2007 for his work on Newcastle writer Jack Common at the University of Durham where he received a BA Honours Degree in Sociology in 1995 and Masters Degree in 1998 for his studies on