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January 8, 2016

AudioRoom: Francis Harvey reads ‘Elegy for the Islanders’

The late Francis Harvey reads one of his best known poems, ‘Elegy for the Islanders’, recorded at the launch of Collected Poems in Dublin’s Damer hall in 2007.

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