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'Home is just a word. But in Ireland the word home has always been different to home somewhere else'
Colm Keegan
'This country has been so unloved. People go on about 800 years of oppression, it's 800 years of rejection'
"There are a lot of dead poets on tea towels in tourist shops - this is about live poetry"
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One day I was broke... then I got a call that changed everything
Meet the people making poetry cool again in Ireland