Purchased from the Patrick Kavanagh Centenary Exhibition, Carrickmacross, 2004.

Cormac Healy was born in Dublin. He studied Fine Art Painting at The Crawford College of Art, Cork. He has exhibited widely in Iceland, Denmark, Holland, London and Ireland.

Joseph Woods was born in Drogheda. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. He published his first collection Sailing to Hokkaido in 2001 and won In The Patrick Kavanagh Award the following year. He is Director of Poetry Ireland.