MINISTER for Education and Skills Jan O’Sullivan will launch Mae Clancy Leonard’s new book on Sunday 13, 3pm in The Captain’s Room at Hunt Museum. It’s called My Home is There 3.
Mae Clancy-Leonard is from Limerick, now living in Co. Kildare. She is a member of Poetry Ireland’s Writers in Schools programme and for many years has broadcast on RTE Radio One’s ‘Sunday Miscellany’.
Awards include the Gerard Manley Hopkins Poetry award, Cecil Day-Lewis Award (for poetry and prose), Scottish International Poetry Awards, The Golden Pen, Francis McManus Short Story Competition and the Belmont Prize for Children’s Poetry. A collection of poetry I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This was published by Doghouse in 2011.
My Home Is There 2 was published by The Limerick Writers’ Centre in 2012.
In this her third collection of stories, more than 70 tales of her beloved Limerick and beyond.
