19 Poetry by Jim Crickard who is a poet from Kerry living in Cork. He regularly attends O’Bheal, a popular Cork Open-Mic night and has been included in two of their anthologies. He was invited to read poetry in November 2017 at Cork’s Winter Warmer festival during the closedmic set for emerging poets. His poetry was also published in Contemporary Poetry 2 an Indian Publication by Dr. Pradeep Chawal and Dr. Deepak Chawal. He has earned a BA in English and Philosophy in UCC and an MA in Gender, Sexuality and Culture in UCD. Themes and styles vary in his poetry from humorous, ironic, emotional, personal and playfully superficial.
civic award winner, for his lifelong contribution to arts and culture in Dundalk, and HSE prize winning poet 2011 and 2015.
22 Short story by Nicola Whelan who lives in Gorey, Co. Wexford. She is fairly new to the publishing world, but has done free self publishing for an American medical periodical newsletter and also a British medical periodical newsletter. She has also written blogs on the Internet. She is a new writer of short stories, mainly chicklit, and is also a member of the Gorey Writer’s Group, who meet twice a month in Gorey, Co. Wexford. 24 Poetry by Patrick Walsh who served four years as an infantry officer in the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Division. He later returned to school to receive the M.Phil. in Anglo-Irish literature from Ireland’s University of Dublin, Trinity College. His poems have appeared in many journals in America and abroad, including Automatic Pilot, Chronogram, Evergreen Review, The Hudson Review, The Malahat Review, Poetry New Zealand, THE SHOp, and War, Literature & the Arts. 26 Poetry by Brendan Connolly from Dundalk, Co. Louth. Brendan studied Antropology and Humanities in British Columbia. Writing since 1977, he has published poems in New York, Britain, and Ireland, in journals, magazines, chapbooks, and anthologies. Brendan is a recent inaugural Municipal District of Dundalk 2