Paul Durcan reads 'Making Love Outside Áras an Uachtaráin' to a studio audience.
Paul Durcan was born in Dublin in 1944. He moved to London in 1966, where he married and had two daughters. After returning to Ireland, he graduated from UCC in 1973 with a first-class honours degree in Archaeology and History. He has published 22 collections of poetry and won the Whitbread Prize for Poetry in 1990 for his book 'Daddy, Daddy'. 'Making Love Outside Áras an Uachtaráin' is from his 1978 collection 'Sam's Cross'.
Durcan reads 'Making Love Outside Áras an Uachtaráin' to a studio audience in this extract from 'The Poet's Eye' broadcast on 22 November 1987.
Keywords:
