In this illuminating documentary, Dawe explored in poetry and in conversation with friends and neighbours, the town that he lived in and wrote about for over three decades.
Read his original introduction to From Kingstown to Dun Laoghaire below.
I first moved to Dun Laoghaire in 1989 and over the years since I've written poems that were inspired by the town's history, its streetscapes and its location on the southside of Dublin Bay.
In From Kingstown to Dun Laoghaire I'm meeting friends and neighbours to explore their evolving impressions of Dun Laoghaire, charting along the way some of the social changes the town has undergone from its 'Kingstown' past to its multicultural present.
Guests taking part are broadcaster Brendan Balfe, writers Eimear O'Connor and Melatu-Uche Okorie, librarian and historian Marian T Keyes, and literary agent Jonathan Williams, who describes a little-known gem about the great North American novelist Henry James and Dun Laoghaire's Royal Marine Hotel.
From Kingstown to Dun Laoghaire is the third and final part of a trilogy of Lyric Features which include Home Thoughts, a collaboration with Eleanor Shanley that was broadcast in 2018, and Crossing the Sound, broadcast in 2019.
Listen to more from The Lyric Feature here.
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