Louis mulcahy biography

When Wexford-born Mulcahy becomes interested in something, he says he gives it his all. He started writing poetry at the age of sixty-four, 14 years ago.

For the 60th birthday of his Swedish wife, Lisbeth, he wrote her a poem which was considered good.

Up until then, Mulcahy had been writing prose.

“I had over 30 long short stories and I never did anything with them,” he says.

“They were horrendously long. I went to a couple of poetry gatherings and workshops in order to try and learn how to be concise.

“It went on from there.

I became totally engrossed in poetry. I spent a lot of years getting up at 4.30am trying to learn how to write poetry.

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I found poet, Paddy Bushe, a very easy man to talk to. He went through a series of poems I had written and he marked them ‘poetry’ and ‘not poetry’,’ good’ and ‘bad.’”

Mulcahy’s early poetry dealt with his background and his poor relationship with his father.

My father had his own problems.

I think