There was a global flavour to the 2021 Padraic Colum Gathering, with attendees from Britain, the US and Australia joining the online event on Saturday, May 15, .
Virtual twist to Longford s annual Padraic Colum Gathering
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The annual Padraic Colum Gathering has become a much-anticipated date in the Longford literary calendar to everyone who loves poems like ‘The Drover’ and ‘An Old Woman of the Roads’ and of course the beautiful ballad ‘She Moved through the Fair’.
The Colum Gathering was established in 2017 to celebrate the life and work of one of Longford’s best known and best loved writers and poets.
A very important and gratifying part of this event has been the involvement of members of the Colum family, many of whom travelled from around the globe to be in Longford for this special weekend.
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In April 1916, the front pages of America’s newspapers were dominated by headlines about the war on Europe’s western front, where the German and French armies were battling at Verdun, and by reports of German American opposition to President Wilson’s re-election campaign. Then, on Tuesday morning, the 25th, came news of the capture of a German ship that had tried to land arms on Ireland’s west coast, and the arrest of Sir Roger Casement, a retired diplomat. “Daring Invasion of Ireland by Germans Fails,” screamed the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina. Partisan passions about World War I were running high in the United States, and pro-British papers like The New York Times were quick to circulate the “official” announcement calling Casement “mentally unbalanced,” and the Irish news nothing more than a “madcap adventure.”