The Irish Writers’ Centre are delighted to invite you to an evening in celebration of Frank X Buckley and his extensive art collection at the Irish Writers’ Centre on Thursday 24thNovember. The collection is regarded as one of the best private collections in the country and the Irish Writers' Centre is enormously proud of it and enormously grateful to Frank for his generosity. We will have a varied evening of tributes from artists, competition winners and writers.
In celebration of Frank X. Buckley and his extensive collection of art, which is on permanant display in the Irish Writers' Centre, we invitited writers of both poetry and fiction to write poems and flash fiction based on pieces from the Frank X. Buckley Collection.
The collection includes an exciting array of well-known Irish art including the likes of Felim Egan, Michael Mulcahy, Graham Knuttel and Thomas Ryan. The entire collection was donated by Frank X. Buckley. His desire was to make the Irish Writers’ Centre a more pleasant place to work in and create. Art is another creative outlet not far removed from creative writing where crucially a scene or a moment is imaginatively conceived.
The Irish Writers’ Centre are delighted to invite you to an evening in celebration of Frank X Buckley and his extensive art collection at the Irish Writers’ Centre on Thursday 24thNovember. The collection is regarded as one of the best private collections in the country and the Irish Writers' Centre is enormously proud of it and enormously grateful to Frank for his generosity. We will have a varied evening of tributes from artists, competition winners and writers. The programme of events for the evening will be as follows:
6.30pm: Showing of the RTÉ "Would You Believe" documentary "Positively Frank".
7.30pm: Reception.
8.00pm:Introduction by Jack Harte, Chairman, Irish Writers' Centre followed by tributes by artists: Francis Tansey, Thomas Ryan PPRHA, Barbara Warren RHA andSiobhan Cuffe
And Frank Buckley himself will say a few words about his collection.
Reading on the night will be the winners of our Frank X Buckley Poetry & Flash Fiction competion. Each will read their winning entries. The winners of the Frank X Buckley competition are:
Eleanor Hooker - Dreamless
Paddy Doherty - B.Y.O.B
Susan Stairs - The Sky Room
Elizabeth O'Carroll - Put the lid on 'After Brian King's 'To Mera''
Eoin Hegarty - Figure in a Landscape
Patricia Clark - Girl Hiding her Face
A selection of paintings from the collection are viewable here. |
