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For contributors from Lowell <\/span><\/span><span>Paul Marion, poet &amp; writer, who founded Loom Press in 1978, and John Wooding, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span><span><span><span>Professor Emeritus, Department of Political\u00a0Science, University of\u00a0Massachusetts, Lowell, who is Co-ordinator of Lowell City of Learning. <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span>Tina Neylon, former\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" xml:lang=\"EN-US\"><span><span>Books Editor of The Irish Examiner &amp; Co-ordinator of the Cork Lifelong Learning Festival from 2004 to 2017, is the Cork editor. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12477,"template":"","class_list":["post-12476","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Atlantic Currents - Connecting Cork &amp; 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