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We are very grateful to Michael O’Donnell the author of Taking Stock – A collection of Poetry. All proceeds of the sale of this book will go towards the Cancer Clinical Research Trust’s triple negative breast cancer research programme in memory of his daughter Catherine, RIP.

About the book:

Prologue by Dr. Naoise Synott

Foreword by Dr. Lucy O’Donnell

• The Friends
• The Window
• Adopted
• Achill Henge
• Dooagh Beach
• Cillin na Leanai
• Cutting the Grass
• Dom Allum
• Fishing Sandeels
• If You Will Only Have Me
• Chroniclers of Old
• Loneliness
• Kilbane’s Tractor
• Remembering the Bog
• Colour Plates, scenes of Achill
• On Slievenamon
• Ol’ Seamus’ Car
• Trial and Error
• She Means Business
• Sleet and Snow
• Is There Anyone Here I Can Trust
• Ancient Achill Tombs
• Stolen
• The Magpie
• Spring to Life
• The Road That Leads to Keem
• The Seasons
• The Weaver
• The Big Wash
• The Deserted Village
• The Old Seadog
• The Tatie Hokers
• Train Station 1961
• Ode to Catherine