Limerick Poet Mike MacDomhnaill - Fáilte romhat isteach

Mike Mac Domhnaill was born in 1953 at Clouncagh, County Limerick and the family moved to Newcastle West in 1957 after his father’s death. The poems in his book Widow’s Son/Mac Baintrí reflect on locality, history, nature, family, world, belief. They were written over many years. There are 52 poems in English.

Rugadh i gCluain Cath i 1953. Bhog an chlann go Caisleán Nua sa bhliain 1957 tar éis bhás a athar. Scríobhadh na dánta seo thar na blianta. Tá siad bunaithe ar áit dhúchais, stair, dúlra, clann, domhan,creideamh. Tá 52 dhán i nGaeilge.

Mike Mac Domhnaill has been published in various journals. Most satisfying has to be the honour of poems published in the Stony Thursday Book 1978 alongside the late Michael Hartnett. Short-listed for the Francis Mac Manus Short Story Award 2007 and has work read on RTE Radio 1 during the summer of 2009.

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Previously published:

• Bailéad Briste do Johnny/A Broken Ballad for Johnny; Hartnett, File/The Poet Hartnett san Weekly Observer

• Tuiscint Don Troid, My Mother and The Civil War in An Cloigeann is a Luach/ What Worth the Head (Eag: Evelyn Conlon)

• Rós ar an mBord, Lá

• If the Cap fits, Microphone On (2005) (Eag:Dominic Taylor, The Whitehouse Press)

• The Child, The Stony Thursday Book (1977-1978) (Eag: John Liddy)