Monday, August 4, 2025

literary Ireland

Here are some literary things that I came across while in Ireland.

The stairs to one branch of the Dublin Library. Why not advertise books on your stairs? This branch happened to be on the second floor of a shopping center.

This was at a ceramic exhibit at the National Botanic Gardens. Cathy Dineen put a short story on her ceramic tiles.
At the Chester Beatty Museum, there were a lot of old pages from ancient books.  This is some Scripture from the third century.

A poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins hanging in a garden in Carlow. My garden might need a sign like this, too.


This is a machine that prints out a story, poem or comic on demand (see Short Edition website). The comic I got was about neighborhood cats.

There was Red Bookshop in Wexford.  Every room in the store was this packed.

In Dublin, the National Library had an exhibition about poet Seamus Heaney. These are some of his notebooks with his poetry.