DocArchive (1995): The Half Blind Quarter Poet

Owen Nestor is the toast of many Galway parishes for his poems and ballads. He lost the sight of one eye when a sod of turf fell off a cart and hit him. The explanation for his self deprecating soubriquet, ‘the half blind Quarter poet’ is now clear. (First Broadcast 1995)

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