My poem ‘Owning The Sky’ or ‘The Flats That Simms Built’ has just been turned into a beautiful short film by Paddy Cahill with original music by Irene Clancy and is available to view here
Last October I was commissioned by the organisers of Simms120 to write a poem about Herbert Simms, the amazing Dublin City Architect of the 1930’s. His buildings are a roll call of social housing in the city – he designed and oversaw all of the Cabra and Crumlin estates as well as Chancery House, Dolphin House, Pease House, Oliver Bond Fatima Mansions. The conference took place https://simms120.wordpress.com/ and among the other speakers were Eoin O’Mahony (Organiser), architectural historian Ellen Rowley, geographer and former resident of Pearse House, Mary Broe who brought me around the flats. Meanwhile my essay about Simms, (also read at the conference) was broadcast on
Sunday Miscellany Sunday 2 December 2018
Sunday Miscellany. New Writing: Ebenezer Howard and Dublin’s Garden Suburb, by Gail Seekamp; Lapis Lazuli, by Frank Kavanagh; Home and Herbert Simms, by Nell Regan;
Nell Regan reading commissioned poem ‘Owning the Sky’ or The Flats Simms Built’ at Simms120 Oct 2018