{"id":35287,"date":"2025-04-04T03:03:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/mining-memories\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T03:03:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T02:03:46","slug":"mining-memories","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/mining-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Mining Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Workshops -Beginners and improvers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">These workshops aim t<\/span><span>o foster and encourage creative writing especially for those of retirement age new to the practice&nbsp;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">while&nbsp;<\/span><span>facilitating participants to mine memories, across the life-span, and prompt recall<\/span> <span lang=\"EN-GB\">resulting in some&nbsp;<\/span><span>compelling creative writing.<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Margaret Galvin is a native of Cahir, long time resident in Wexford. A former Editor of <\/span><em><span>Ireland\u2019s Own,&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><span>she has published six collections of narrative lyrical poetry, poetry that tells stories. Her most recent collection is <\/span><em><span>Our House,<\/span><\/em><span> <\/span><em><span>Delirious&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><span>from Revival Press, Limerick (2023). Her reminiscence essays are frequently broadcast on RTE 1 <\/span><em><span>Sunday Miscellany&nbsp;<\/span><\/em><span>and<\/span><em><span> A Word in Edgeways.<\/span><\/em><span>&nbsp;Her academic background is in Social Care, leading to a major interest in making writing available to diverse groups including persons with disability and other health and social care support needs in addition to general interest participants, especially those new to writing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two workshops will take place on Tuesday 6th and Wednesday 7th May 2.30pm &#8211; 5pm, please ring Clonmel Library on 052 616 6130 to book your place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":35288,"template":"","class_list":["post-35287","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>Mining Memories - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Writing Workshops -Beginners and improvers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/mining-memories\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mining Memories - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Writing Workshops -Beginners and improvers.&nbsp; These workshops aim to foster and encourage creative writing especially for those of retirement age new to the practice&nbsp;while&nbsp;facilitating participants to mine memories, across the life-span, and prompt recall resulting in some&nbsp;compelling creative writing. 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