Irish Poets Society (no registration required)

Join us on May 30th for an evening of Irish Poetry of Loss.  All poems are readily available on Google, so bring your smartphone to read along with us.  And if you have a poem by a poet born in Ireland, you're welcome to recite it for us.  The poems scheduled for the evening include the following:

Irish Poetry of Loss

The Stolen Child – W. B. Yeats

Do Not Stand By My Grave and Weep (Immortality – Clare Harner)

Stony Grey Soil – Patrick Kavanagh

Dónal Óg – Translation by Frank O’Connor

The Hour of Twilight – George William Russell

Mid-term Break – Seamus Heaney

For Grief – John O’Donohue

Someone – Dennis O’Driscoll

I See His Blood Upon the Rose – Joseph Mary Plunkett

And Soul – Eavan Boland

She Weeps Over Rahoon – James Joyce

On the Death of the Beloved – John O’Donohue

In Memory of My Mother – Patrick Kavanagh

Freedom – George William Russell