Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

W.B. Yeats

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Nuala Ó Faoláin (1942-2008)

A memorial tribute to the journalist and author Nuala O’Faolain will take place in New York on the 24th of June.

The Women’s Voices for Change website carries a tribute to Nuala.

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Nuala Ó Faoláin (1942-2008)

Journalist and author Nuala O’Faolain died last night at the Blackrock Hospice in Dublin.

She was 66 years old.

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Irish Writers Online is a concise bio-bibliographical dictionary of Irish writers (as described by the webmaster).

It’s a great resource site. It has an A to Z list of 541 writers.

Well worth a visit!

Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

Samuel Beckett - author, critic and playwright. He won the 1969 Nobel Prize for Literature.

He was born in Dublin on the 13^th of April 1906.

Happy birthday and Rest In Peace Samuel.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde took a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry (famous for the ‘Marquess of Queensberry rules’ associated with boxing). The Marquess had accussed Wilde of being a sodomite.

The case opened on the 3^rd of April 1895 but was withdrawn shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, for Wilde, it led to him being charged and convicted of gross indecency.

Wilde received a sentence of two years’ hard labour.

Wilde wrote the poem ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol‘ after his release from prison.

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I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud

by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

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I see that the dying wish of one of the world’s greatest authors may be overturned.

It appears that relatives and fans of Charles Dickens want to build a memorial to mark the 200^th anniversary of his birth.

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