watch this space for details, will be available for Xmas 2017
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Poetry
for the next month or so, I’ll be working on finishing the first draft of this … #poetry #ireland #amwriting
Heritage Week Ireland
Here are some of my favourite pics from visiting Irish Historic sites this year so far … enjoy Heritage week everybody
New Projects
Starting work on two new books soon, a murder mystery set in C.18th Dublin and a 4th Botolf book. More details will follow soon, but for now you can catch up on all my work to-date on Amazon Books …
Writing Update July 2017
It’s hard to write and edit when the sun is shining (and maybe we shouldn’t). Having enjoyed the experience of my first photography exhibition Lost in the Graveyards of Ireland, it’s back to writing. Working on a teleplay with a friend of mine (working title: Peter Saint) and trying to finish off a new poetry collection (more on that later this month).
Guner Zoon (adult comedy sci-fi novel) is in the proof reading stage, and as you may know Murder on the Alpha Centauri Express is out in print and eBook (reviews welcomed). It’s the planning stage for what novel/book to do next, plenty of options in my Ideas file, so watch this space and thanks for your readership.
Steve
Exhibition
Many thanks to everyone who helped along the way to get this project over the line, the photographs are on display in Edenderry Library until the 29th of July
Photography Exhibition Details
LOST IN THE GRAVEYARDS OF IRELAND
Novelist and Historian Steve Downes presents his first exhibition of photography, Lost in the Graveyards of Ireland, open to the public in Edenderry Library for the month of July 2017. For the last four years Steve and his wife Niamh have travelled the length and breadth of Ireland visiting historical sites which have been abandoned or neglected, documenting them for future generations.
Many of these lost sites are old churches and graveyards and Steve soon began to record the iconography, architecture and epitaphs of the gravestones and monuments. From Pyramids in Laois, Cork and Wexford to the touching words of a grieving father in the 19th Century, Steve and his wife have rediscovered much that was lost or is being lost.
Steve Downes has amassed over 30,000 historical photographs and this exhibition is just a fraction of his collection. The graveyards and stones are a vital heritage source for all the people of Ireland and Steve will continue to battle weather, nettles and ghosts (if he ever meets one) to document these fading jewels of Ireland’s Gregorian and Victorian past.
Lost in the Graveyards of Ireland features thirty framed, signed and dated pictures from all over Ireland (including several from sites in Offaly and nearby counties) and will be open to visitors in Edenderry Library during all normal library hours.
The Launch of the exhibition is on the 5th of July 7pm, where Steve will give a short talk, and all are welcome.
Photography Exhibition coming soon …
Writing Update May 2017
First of all, many thanks to everyone involved in getting Murder on the Alpha Centauri Express out in print and eBook on Amazon, hope you enjoy the story and reviews are very welcomed.
My sci-fi adventure/comedy Novel The Deaths of Guner Zoon is finished and in editing at the moment, more on that later in the year, right now I’m working on short stories and a children’s book for Xmas 2017 called Gross Gary and the Slug and Slime Pie (should be fun). Also watch out for details of my first photography exhibition, Lost in the Graveyards of Ireland.
Happy reading
Steve
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