Frank Farrelly
@frankfarrelly.bsky.social
Poetry mostly. Waterford. Two collections: The Boiler Room/Small Victories (both Revival Press).
Winner of Allingham Prize (Francis Harvey Award) 2024.
Winner of Allingham Prize (Francis Harvey Award) 2024.
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On Friday Oct 24 8pm, at Phil Grimes pub and venue in Waterford City, SpeakEasy will host Ireland Professor of Poetry Vona Groarke. Vona is shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot Prize. She will give a reading, and will also be in conversation with Waterford poet, @mollytwomey. @poetryireland
October 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
On Friday Oct 24 8pm, at Phil Grimes pub and venue in Waterford City, SpeakEasy will host Ireland Professor of Poetry Vona Groarke. Vona is shortlisted for the prestigious TS Eliot Prize. She will give a reading, and will also be in conversation with Waterford poet, @mollytwomey. @poetryireland
Is it my imagination, or are black T-shirts, usually with bold messaging, now de rigueur clothing, for men and women?
June 21, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Is it my imagination, or are black T-shirts, usually with bold messaging, now de rigueur clothing, for men and women?
You have to answer a lot of questions when you order a cup of coffee these days.
March 17, 2025 at 3:19 PM
You have to answer a lot of questions when you order a cup of coffee these days.
Much gratitude to Mary and Katie Lincoln for agreeing to purchase and display my new book, SMALL VICTORIES in their beautiful shop. Means so much to see it for sale in Ardmore, my native village and favourite place.
March 7, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Much gratitude to Mary and Katie Lincoln for agreeing to purchase and display my new book, SMALL VICTORIES in their beautiful shop. Means so much to see it for sale in Ardmore, my native village and favourite place.
Delighted to be doing a reading from my recent collection ’Small Victories’ in the Old Market House Arts Centre in Dungarvan on March 1st. So lucky to have the wonderful Lani O Hanlon to moderate. All very welcome. 📕
February 19, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Delighted to be doing a reading from my recent collection ’Small Victories’ in the Old Market House Arts Centre in Dungarvan on March 1st. So lucky to have the wonderful Lani O Hanlon to moderate. All very welcome. 📕
This promises to be a great afternoon, looking forward to it very much.
February 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This promises to be a great afternoon, looking forward to it very much.
A fascinating afternoon in store. Recommend highly.
January 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A fascinating afternoon in store. Recommend highly.
Isn’t this wonderful.
January 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Isn’t this wonderful.
A Peace-Lily in our kitchen, hope it works its spell this year, on all the suffering and the troubled, everywhere.
January 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
A Peace-Lily in our kitchen, hope it works its spell this year, on all the suffering and the troubled, everywhere.
Does @news.rte.ie really need to pay a guy to tell us ‘footfall was down in Kilkenny city’ because it was snowing?! A sense of proportion, please.
January 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Does @news.rte.ie really need to pay a guy to tell us ‘footfall was down in Kilkenny city’ because it was snowing?! A sense of proportion, please.
View from The Doneraile Walk, 3.40pm Tramore.
January 1, 2025 at 6:28 PM
View from The Doneraile Walk, 3.40pm Tramore.
December 28, 2024 at 11:41 AM
When did ‘What’s your name?’
become ‘What’s your own name?’
become ‘What’s your own name?’
December 24, 2024 at 9:50 AM
When did ‘What’s your name?’
become ‘What’s your own name?’
become ‘What’s your own name?’
You know when you have all those books lined up you want to read, and friends keep recommending other books you ‘have to read.’
December 19, 2024 at 3:19 PM
You know when you have all those books lined up you want to read, and friends keep recommending other books you ‘have to read.’
Looking forward to this very much. My first time reading in Carrick-on-Suir. Thanks to Margaret O Brien for organising it.
December 7, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Looking forward to this very much. My first time reading in Carrick-on-Suir. Thanks to Margaret O Brien for organising it.
Wonder if the RTE sports reporter would have said the match ‘ended in tears’ if it was the men’s football team who missed out on qualification last night.
@news.rte.ie
@news.rte.ie
December 4, 2024 at 9:57 AM
Wonder if the RTE sports reporter would have said the match ‘ended in tears’ if it was the men’s football team who missed out on qualification last night.
@news.rte.ie
@news.rte.ie
When I hear Sinn Fein advocating stopping the supply of weapons to Ukraine, I think of Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler, and its consequences.
November 26, 2024 at 3:58 PM
When I hear Sinn Fein advocating stopping the supply of weapons to Ukraine, I think of Chamberlain’s appeasement of Hitler, and its consequences.
The American phrase
‘I got this’ has landed and is now part of how we speak in Ireland. I don’t know why this annoys me.
‘I got this’ has landed and is now part of how we speak in Ireland. I don’t know why this annoys me.
November 25, 2024 at 10:39 AM
The American phrase
‘I got this’ has landed and is now part of how we speak in Ireland. I don’t know why this annoys me.
‘I got this’ has landed and is now part of how we speak in Ireland. I don’t know why this annoys me.
Standing on a deserted street in Waterford with about ten others waiting for the green pedestrian light, I realise sadly, that the great Irish tradition of jaywalking is disappearing.
November 23, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Standing on a deserted street in Waterford with about ten others waiting for the green pedestrian light, I realise sadly, that the great Irish tradition of jaywalking is disappearing.
On this day 61 years ago, my tearful mother came into my room.
‘Kneel down and say a prayer for President Kennedy, he died this afternoon.’
I can see her still.
‘Kneel down and say a prayer for President Kennedy, he died this afternoon.’
I can see her still.
November 22, 2024 at 7:24 AM
On this day 61 years ago, my tearful mother came into my room.
‘Kneel down and say a prayer for President Kennedy, he died this afternoon.’
I can see her still.
‘Kneel down and say a prayer for President Kennedy, he died this afternoon.’
I can see her still.