Poetry book launch......

This Saturday afternoon, a book of poetry, ‘In the Wind Listening’, the work of the late Dermot Walsh will be launched and celebrated in the Carrigart Hotel from 2-5pm. Carrigart’s Fr. Charlie Byrne will speak about Dermot and his poetry and there will be music by the talented Devlinreagh Trad Group. And the book will be available - priced at €9.50. All sale proceeds and donations will go to the Alzheimers Society in Donegal. Dermot Walsh was an outstanding man called away at the age of 76. He was a hotelier, recipient of the Donegal Person of the Year and a man that contributed his many and varied talents in promoting his own county, community development, his own golf course and welcoming the legendary Jack Nicklaus to the Carrigart Hotel in 2005. He was passionate about the revitalisation of the county’s tourism and business sector. And apart from contesting two Seanad elections, he found time to create poetry. Dermot’s work ranged across all aspects of his own life. ‘‘In the Wind Listening’’ is the eclectic work of a professional who could write poetry while creating a visual painting in the mind of readers. There is one special work included that has a flashback to Wolfe Tone being escorted by British militia after his failed uprising in 1798. The poem by Dermot about an uncle who had known Hughie Harkin who had been born in 1821 and lived for a hundred and one years. Harkin told Dermot’s uncle how he was told by his mother how she had seen Wolfe Tone being escorted by the militia. Strange times in Ireland back then and the real world, stranger than… reality itself!