My Limerick Town

I was, I am hesitant to admit, like many of Desmond’s old school friends aware - yes - of Desmond O’Grady the Limerick poet - but was unaware of the extent, depth and importance of his work to contemporary poetry and of this great poet’s work and his contribution to the art of poetry over the past fifty years.

That he is, in the words of Seamus Heaney “one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life - exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry a...