Hello and Welcome,

Thanks for taking the time to check out my web site
and read a  little about me. It�s a very brief , 
sketchy skeleton of a biography but it gives you some
idea  about me. I remember hearing the poet/painter
Billy Killerney who  had  a poem with the great title
and refrain "I am not my c.v." and so too I am not 
my biography�....

I was born in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland
1958. And went to school there (the Friary and the Marist)
and began writing poetry in my teens. Have lived and worked
in Dublin, Clare, Limerick, Copenhagen and Bornholm
(Denmark),Paris (France not Texas) and finally 
Dun Laoghaire,though lately I�m back in my home town 
at time of writing.

I�ve had various jobs  some of which includes Accountancy,
Depotman (Railway), fish factory worker, English Teacher,
Software Tester and Presenter/Broadcaster/Programme Maker of
the Radio Arts Series "INNER UNIVERSE" on Anna Livia and
Dublin South Community Radio the highlights of which are
available on tape from this web site.

My first published poetry collection  entitled �Late Eyes�
appeared in April 1983 with illustrations by Peter Kay 
(Starling Publications).This was followed by 5 other collections
including ClareNights (1987) Bridge Over The Dead (1992),
and an album �Pass-her-by�( cover designed by Dave McCormack) 
containing  a selection of my poems set to music (by John Clarke),
sound effects and various voices (including the late veteran
Hollywood actor  O.Z. Whitehead who starred in many John Ford films).

I�ve performed my  work over the years to audiences( some large,
some small depending on their height�joke!) in Ireland, Denmark ,
Belgium and France but over the last few years have promoted my work on
radio as its an ideal intimate medium for poetry with a listnership
(can vary with the radio station) running into many thousands of 
people. My poems were read on the highly popular Gay Byrne Radio show
on R.T. E. radio 1 a few years back which use to have a listnership
running close to a million people in Ireland alone at the time.

Enough of beating my hollow drum�...How to describe my poetry? 
It�s difficult! As it can vary from personal autobiographical material
to fantasy or even hard-hitting  social poems with a moral message,
rather than put labels on my work I think it�s best for you to read 
some of my poems from the various collections, hopefully you�ll enjoy
one or some of them and might even decide to buy a book, c.d. or tape.

Visitors to my site are quite welcome to print/copy out some of my poems
for themselves and share them with friends, humans ,animals ,trees, 
plants, flowers and those from outer space who have no planet to go
home to. I can be contacted on Planet Earth
 by e-mail [email protected].


Bye for now (being 2nd May 2001) and hope to hear from you soon!

Patrick Boyle.

(other pen names include Pat(rick) Le Boy, Paraic O�Baoill or
 Paraic Boyle)

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