I had the pleasure of visiting the recently-renovated Patrick Kavanagh Centre, in the village of Inniskeen, Co Monaghan, this week. I confess that apart from studying Kavanagh’s poems as part of the Leaving Cert curriculum, many, many years ago, I knew very little about Patrick Kavanagh. And the depressing ‘Stony Grey Soil’ wouldn’t have inspired…
It was about time I went on a road-trip, so I packed up the car with lots of lovely glassware, and headed off to restock some of the lovely gift shops that stock my fused glass. First stop was the beautiful Collective at Market Square, a spacious, gift gallery housed alongside the famous Lace Gallery…
