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Paul Hadfield
Paul Hadfield was a writer and educator who lived for over twenty years in Ireland. He was for many years a theatre director, a university teacher and joint editor of Theatre Ireland Journal. His poetry has been published in many journals including Critical Quarterly and Études Irlandaises. Paul died in January 2018. He was a good friend and will be sadly missed.
— Articles by Paul Hadfield —
The poetry of Paul Hadfield has featured before in hidden europe. When he sent us a poem on the Whaligoe Steps in north-east Scotland, it set us thinking about some of the iconic stairways that we have encountered on our travels around Europe.
Prose and poetry evoke echoes of the past on the shores of Loch Fyne in western Scotland. hidden europe walks the loch shore to the ruins of the old powdermills at Furnace, while Paul Hadfield weaves a web of family history.
In County Leitrim, Ireland's blind bard found inspiration. Turlough O'Carolan was a composer, poet and harpist. And O'Carolan's work and life fired Paul Hadfield to weave some words about Lough Scur in Leitrim.