Padraic is an Irish poet, member of Quakers in Ireland, and attends Monkstown Meeting, County Dublin. The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) produced one of his poetry books, Pilgrim Verses, with all profits from sales going to the work of AVP. The book contains a collection of simple poems about travels, religion, family and life. https://quakers-in-ireland.ie/2020/02/05/6965/   

Here is how Padraic describes some of this work:

“I have had the pleasure of walking parts of the Camino de Santiago on four separate occasions between 2006 and 2013. It was a vivid reminder, if needed, that life indeed is a pilgrimage.

For reasons of health and climate concern, I am now discovering the pilgrim paths of my native Ireland. The pilgrimages marked my journey from spiritual certainty to questioning. Many of these concerns are reflected in the verses, which for the most part were composed ‘on the spot’. “

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