Poets & Writers

  • The Weaver's Path
    The Weaver's Path

    Pat Mc Erlean has recently published a book called "The Weaver's Path", which is a collection of poems, stories and photographs of lcoal interest.
  • Alice Milligan


    Born in Mountfield the interests and achievements of Alice Milligan’s life were rooted in factors already bubbling in the Irish cauldron at the time of her birth in the 1860’s.
  • Benedict Kiely


    Benedict Kiely was born in 1919 in Dromore, County Tyrone and raised in nearby Omagh.
  • Brian Friel


    Brian Friel was born in Omagh, Co Tyrone in 1929, and in 1939 moved with his family to Derry.
  • Cecil Frances Alexander


    Although born in Dublin in 1818, Cecil Frances Alexander spent a considerable period of her life within the Strabane area.
  • Dr George Sigerson


    Dr George Sigerson, born in 1836 at Hollyhill, near Strabane.
  • Felix Kearney


    Felix Kearney was born in 1889 in Magherenny, near Drumquin.
  • Flann O' Brien


    Born in the Bowling Green, Strabane in 1911, the novelist Brian O’Nolan, wrote fiction as “Flann O’Brien” and contributed a controversial weekly column, ‘Cruiskeen Lawn’, to the Irish Times, under the pseudonym ‘Myles Na Gopaleen’, leading to Benedict Kiely describing him as ‘the three headed man’.
  • Jimmy Kennedy


    Jimmy Kennedy was a prolific song writer during the 1930’s and 1940’s.
  • John McCann


    John McCann was born in Castledawson, Northern Ireland on 9 July 1994.
  • The life of Seamus Heaney
    The life of Seamus Heaney

    1939 – Seamus Heaney was born on 13th April at Mossbawn, near Castledawson in County Derry, Northern Ireland.
  • W F Marshall


    ‘The Bard of Tyrone’ Rev William Forbes Marshall, BA, LLB, DD, MRIA, was born in Drumragh, Omagh on 8th May 1888.

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