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Thomas MacGreevy Library,Tarbert Comprehensive

A photograph taken inside The Thomas MacGreevy Library in Tarbert Comprehensive School. The Library was opened in 1988. One of the items on display is a letter from MacGreevy's life long friend Samuel Beckett, in reply to a local correspondend ,in praise of the poetry of MacGreevy. Like many others he laments the literary neglect of MacGreevy.

Plaque outside MacGreevy's home,Tarbert

Photograph of plaque outside the house where MacGreevy grew up in Tarbert.It was unveiled in May 1987 and erected by Cork/Kerry Tourism and Bord Fáilte.

Thomas MacGreevy, European

MacGreevy poses for a photograph during his European sojourn

Waterford Glass Comport

This flint glass comport with superb cross cuts and large printies was made by Gatchell & Company of Waterford about 1850.

Cover of Heartland.

Cover of Heartland, Writing form Longford, edited by Paul Perry.

Cover of Goldsmith's Ghost.

Cover of Goldsmith's Ghost.This is a collaborative novel with chapters written by writers from three counties and is edited by Paul Perry.

Beckett praises Kerry poet

The Kerryman newspaper published an article featuring a letter received from Samuel Beckett by a local correspondent regarding the poetry of MacGreevy.The article was written in the context of the opening of the Thomas MacGreevy Library in Tarbert Comprehensive School in 1988. The letter From Beckett is dated 1987,two years before his death. The original letter is part of the memorabilia attached to the MacGreevy Library.

Viking Lead Weight, 3

The function of the weights was to measure silver, in a period when silver bullion, (a precursor of formal coinage) was becoming the main medium of economic exchange. Silver, whether in the form of coins, ingots or cut fragments of other objects, was weighed against such lead weights in simple balance scales.

Viking Lead Weight, 1

The function of the weights was to measure silver, in a period when silver bullion, (a precursor of formal coinage) was becoming the main medium of economic exchange. Silver, whether in the form of coins, ingots or cut fragments of other objects, was weighed against such lead weights in simple balance scales.

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Signed title page of -Other People's Houses- by Vona Groarke.

Other People’s Houses, Gallery Press 1999, was received by the Times Literary Supplement as a remarkable achievement, praising its author’s remarkably assured and beautifully regulated voice. The collection uses the image of the house, and houses themselves, as the setting for the enactment of particular lives. It ranges from the witty Open House through richly suppressed narratives such as Domestic Arrangements, to the more sombre Holiday Home.