ABOUT WRITERS’ SQUARE

ABOUT WRITERS’ SQUARE

ABOUT WRITERS’ SQUARE

“Ireland is a very lovely country. Indeed, there is only one thing wrong with it, and that is that the people that are in it have not the

common sense to live in peace with one another and with their neighbours.”

ROBERT LLOYD PRAEGER,1865-1953

LOUIS MACNEICE,1907-1963

C.S. LEWIS,1898-1963

Far fam’d Belfast! O long may standThy domes and spires, that long have stood!

Protected by thy Angel’s handFrom Flame, from Tempest, and from flood!

JAMES ORR,1770-1816

“I should have made it plain that I stake my future on birds flying in and out of the schoolroom window, on the council of

sunburnt comrades in the sun, and the picture carried with singing into the temple.”

JOHN HEWITT,1907-1987