Mayo County Council is planning to spend up to fifty thousand pounds this year on promoting local writers and artists and in bringing leading literary figures to the county. This morning - as part of the programme - the poet Richard Murphy set out for Clare Island.
Report shows Murphy reading poem from boat on his way to Clare Island.
Interview with tourists on the experience of having poems read to them.
Murphy and company disembarking at harbour.
Interview with John Coll, Mayo Arts Officer, on the success of the venture.
Interview with Ciara Cullen, Clare Island.
The reporter is Jim Fahy.
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