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Author: Trevor Hodgett

Maeve Dunphy – an interview by Trevor Hodgett

Maeve Dunphy – an interview by Trevor Hodgett

Omagh singer-songwriter Maeve Dunphy’s debut album Scarlet, which was released in 2012, was distinguished by her exceptional songwriting, with lyrics which were arresting and often startling and music which ambitiously contained elements of blues, jazz, reggae and country.

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The Ghosts Inside Me

The Ghosts Inside Me

John Llewllyn James used this quote by Robert Montgomery as a prompt for our writing at a recent meeting of Fermanagh Writers and I couldn’t get it out of my mind.

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Wild Atlantic Writers – Gathering and Book Fair

wawParticipate in workshops and information sessions in the North West on writing and publishing.
Learn more about bursaries, fellowships, and other support systems for writers.

Offer your books for sale at the 2016 Allingham Festival.
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The Phone Box

phone-boxFor weeks all the talk had been of a public telephone coming to Enniskillen.

I claimed to have insider knowledge thanks to the two Telephone Exchange girls who lodged with my grandmother.

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The Home Farm

The Home Farm

A steady drizzle seeps across the island of Inishmore, soaking into an already sodden earth and choking the soil beneath. Wet fields and wet sky merge so easily together that the horizon is lost far beyond the curve of the earth.

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Two Poems of Fermanagh

Two Poems of Fermanagh
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Fermanagh and the Brontës

Fermanagh and the Brontës

The Northern Irish ancestry of the Brontë sisters is now well known, with the Brontë Heritage Centre at Ballymascanlon in County Down, birthplace of their father Patrick Branty, but there is also a tenuous and intriguing link to Fermanagh. Continue reading “Fermanagh and the Brontës”

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The Ghost of a Post

The Ghost of a Post

You notice a lot of strange things when you spend time cycling down back roads just to see where they lead. This gate is near Trillick in County Tyrone.

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High Rise

J.G. Ballard’s 1975 cult novel High-Rise is perhaps better appreciated as a metaphor for an inexplicable breakdown of social order. Continue reading “High Rise”

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Common Ground

Common Ground

You and I are already connected
so deeply related – bound by invisible kinship
beyond this window into which you peer.
Let’s return to common ground
to walk with each other in silence
and remember together
our place in the family of things.

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