Daily Rituals

A poetry reading with Mona Lynch. Mona launched her debut poetry collection 'Daily Rituals' during Bealtaine in the City Library to a huge crowd.

Her collection is entitled Daily Rituals and is sometimes deeply personal as well as covering difficult themes such as famine and war. Much of Mona’s poetry centres on her earlier life, the grown-ups that figured in it, and how the patterns by which they lived have faded over time.

She is 85 and grew up in Blarney, moving to Douglas in 1964 where she has lived since with her husband Liam. She has four sons, one daughter and ten grandchildren. She graduated with an MA in creative writing in UCC in 2018 aged 77. She is published in Quarryman, Swerve, Howl, Examiner, Poetry in the Park, Voices from the Land, World Transformed, Southword, and The Waxed Lemon. The award of an Arts Council grant enabled her to work with Tom McCarthy on her first collection.