THE IRISH QUESTION

Fin Keegan

After Manchán Magan

To pick up a cloch and think it a cloch or

To pick up a cloch and think it a stone or

To pick up a stone and think it a cloch or

To pick up a stone and think it a stone.

Recent poems by Fin Keegan appear in Howl, Swerve, Amsterdam Quarterly and Cold Mountain Review (forthcoming) and were shortlisted for the Bournemouth Writing Prize and Fish Poetry Prize. He has written several performed plays, short and long, along with criticism in the Irish Times, the Irish Arts Review and the Dublin Review of Books, among others. A story, ‘Remembering Albert’, was broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1998.