Happy birthday to Brendan Kennelly who is 75 this year.
My favourite poet, former lecturer at Trinity College Dublin and first mentor. The force be with him for many more years of beautiful, sometimes controversial and moving poetry and his naughty sense of humour.
Listen to his melodious voice on the poetry archive http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=202
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