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Fermoy native, Professor Pat Crotty who officially opened the second annual Fermoy International Poetry Festival at the Town Hall. Also pictured l-r: Cllr. John Murphy, festival organiser Gene Barry, Mayor Olive Corcoran and local man Pat O’Connor.

Professor Pat Crotty was on familiar ground when he visited Fermoy recently where he had the honour of officially openin the International Poetry Festival.

Pat is Professor of Irish and Scottish Literature and acting Head of the School of Language and Literature at the University of Aberdeen.  He's a graduate of NUI Cork and of the University of Stirling, where he did his PhD on the poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid.

He's been Senior Lecturer in English and Welsh Studies at Trinity College Carmarthen, Wales, and head of the English department at St Patrick's College, Dublin City University. Before moving to Aberdeen in 2005 he was a professor at the Academy for Irish Cultural Heritages at the University of Ulster. 

His Penguin Book of Irish Verse, featuring seven sections covering the historical development of Irish poetry from earliest times to the present, in addition to two sections of songs and ballads, was published by Penguin Classics in 2010.

His address in the town hall to mark the launch was attended by a number of visiting poets, Mayor Olive Corcoran and Cllr John Murphy.

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