Renowned Irish poet Paul Durcan has had a lifelong fascination with visual art, writes Ciara Kerrigan
The National Library of Ireland (NLI) has acquired the second half of the literary and personal archive of one of Ireland’s leading contemporary poets, Paul Durcan. Comprising over 200 boxes, the archive spans Durcan’s literary career, from the 1960s to the present day. It contains material relating to his work as a poet, including drafts of his poems, hundreds of notebooks, diaries, photographs and an extensive corpus of correspondence.
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