I can verify that Mairead. You were wearing black as I remember and writing
notes for a review you published. You realise that since you left none of
our key performances ever made the scandal sheets. Now that's what I call
indispensable. Of course, they are only key in the sense that one could
count them on the notches of a yale.
The Winding Stair, prop. Kevin Connolly, now hosts a series of events for
Poetry Ireland. Somebody naughty told me that you get to be "launched"
there if you do a certain number of workshops with P.I. Scurrilous thought.
Apparently they do them in batches at six weekly intervals. Perhaps the
same person came up with the Windy Stair concept.
Cheers,
Randolph Healy
P.S. For those with strong nerves there's a picture of me pretending to
play the guitar hanging in the W.S.
Visit the Sound Eye website at:
http://indigo.ie/~tjac/sound_eye_hme.htm
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> From: [log in to unmask]
> To: Richard Caddel <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Windy Stair?
> Date: 15 June 1999 18:50
>
>
> I suppose it's sort of heartening that it takes about twenty years now to
> make a legend. I was there -- in the reverberating dawn of the Winding
> Stair. Now the Worthies of Irish Poetry would not of course have
> contributed in any way to the renaming?
>
> All the best,
>
> Mairead
>
> On Tue, 15 Jun 1999, Richard Caddel wrote:
>
> > At the back of the new Radio Times, amongst the ads for hearing aids
> > and sensible shoes, is a pic of Ardal O'Hanlon sitting in the window
> > of the "Windy Stair Bookshop" overlooking the Liffey in Dublin. Uh.
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the legendary "Winding Stair
> > Bookshop", whereat I first met Scully, Walsh, Mills, Mays and others
> > donkeys' years ago, and whereat these and other Worthies of Irish
> > Poetry have given key performances over the years? Has a subtle
> > renaming taken place?
> >
> > RC
> >
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