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American Students in Ireland: Perspectives from WFU Press
Two of our new WFU Press interns recently returned from a seven week internship program in Dublin, Ireland. Below, they recount their unique experiences and reflections from their time abroad. Alex Price: The day I arrived, I went tired, a bit smelly if we are being honest, and with the look of the lost to Trinity…
Continue ReadingBook of the Month: Paula Meehan’s “Painting Rain”
For November, the book of the month is Painting Rain, the 2009 collection of poetry from Paula Meehan. Painting Rain is full of sadness, and death, and memory; images of the present are wrapped up with the past. This is a book about how things change, will always change, will never remain the same. In…
Continue ReadingPaula Meehan: Rebel with a Cause
Paula Meehan, born in Dublin in 1955, spent much of her childhood in England before finishing her primary school education at Dublin’s Central Model Girls’ School in Gardiner Street. She began her secondary school education at St. Michael’s Holy Faith Covent in Finglas, but her time there was short lived. Meehan was expelled from the…
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