'On The Nail' Reading @ The Locke Bar, Limerick
Tuesday 7th June 2011 8.00pm
(please note our new day, Tuesday, for the Summer months)
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 our guests are Gabriel FitzMaurice and Dave Rock.
Gabriel Fitzmaurice, whose roots lie deep in the strong literary tradition of North Kerry is poet, teacher, broadcaster, writer, translator, singer and raconteur. He was born in 1952, in the village of Moyvane, Co Kerry where he still lives. For more than three decades he taught and later served as principal at his local national school but is now happily retired. He is the author of more than forty books, including collections of poetry in English and Irish as well as several collections of verse for children. He has translated extensively from Irish and had also edited a number of anthologies of