Anthologies

The Transition Year at Clifden Community school has always allowed space for the development of
the imagination, and has inspired creativity. This years's class has certainly maintained that vision.
Katie Budd, Joseph Aspell and Daniel Conneely headed the editorial board of
The Cliften Anthology and
it's wonderful to see the results of that work within this volume. The book features prose, short stories, poetry and social commentary - all
triggering, detonating and whispering together. "Without doubt, the writers in this anthology have brought great excitement into the lives
of students and the wider community." Brendan Flynn
Cliften Community School, August 2004
Something Beginning with P published by the O’Brien Press in association with
Poetry Ireland, is a collection of new poems for children including poems from leading
Irish poets: Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Máighréad Medbh, Paula Meehan, Brendan
Kennelly, Michael Longley, Rita Ann Higgins, Matthew Sweeney, Biddy Jenkinson, Desmond
O’Grady, Paula Meehan, Joan McBreen, Nuala ní Dhomhnaill, Celia de Fréine, Cathal Ó
Searcaigh, Frank McGuinness, Julie O’Callaghan, Tom McIntyre, Paul Muldoon, Dermot
Bolger, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Frank Ormsby, Siobhán Campbell, Dennis O’Driscoll,
John Montague, Moya Cannon, Peter Fallon, Mary O’Malley, Micheal O’Siadhail
and John F Deane to name but a few.