Padraig McLoughlin
Westport – A Blessing on the Soul! is a new collection of poems from Westport and Achill by Padraig McLoughlin, author of Only The Stones Never Die; When the Heavens Deny; and Westport: 100 Years of Golf: 1908 – 2008. Central to the collection is his epic poem ‘Westport’:
“For this is MacBride’s town too. Maud Gonne’s MacBride. A leader in the Easter Rebellion, a Boer War campaigner. He made a poem out of war, speaking the language of Maud. Poor Yeats! He lost her. His diction was softer.”
– from “Westport”
Padraig McLoughlin lives in Carrowholly, Westport, Co. Mayo. He is a retired teacher of English and History. He has taught in Great Denmark Street Vocational School, Dublin; Scoil Damhnait, Achill Island and Balla Secondary School, Balla, Co. Mayo. His poetry has been published in the “New Writing Page” in the former “Irish Press”, in the “Irish Book Review’’, in the “Achill Link Magazine”, in “The Connaught Telegraph” and in “The Mayo News”.
Cover Artwork by Aggie McLoughlin.
