WINNER OF THE 2014 IRISH BOOK LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD O Westport in the Light of Asia Minor was first published in a tiny edition in Dublin in 1975. It was Paul Durcan's first fully-fledged collection, and already displays an astonishingly mature, visionary power, shot through with the
Major John MacBride, who was Born in Westport, County Mayo in 1868, was a household name in Ireland when many of the leaders of the Easter Rising were still relatively unknown figures.As part of the 'Irish Brigade', a band of nationalists fighting against the British in the Second Boer War,