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Pádraig Ó Tuama: Moving from Pain to Joy

A Life of Greatness

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The Power of Poetry

The Irish school system is filled with poetry from the age of five to 17. We were learning two poems off by heart every week, one in English, one in Irish. So I started writing when I was about 11 terrible poetry, scraps of paper. And then especially during these exorcisms and other times like that, trying to write about pain and shock.

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