On Tuesday the 29th of November we launch our 3rd book. the book is a collection of personal recollections and poems from our book club. Fr Liam Lawton was our guest of honour and while he kept his now famous singing voice under wraps for the night he did entertain us with his own personal […]
Life Through Our Viewfinder III, the third book written by the Dalton House Book Club will be launched on Tuesday the 29th of November, 2016. Launching the book will be Fr. Liam Lawton, award winning multi platinum singer song writer. The welcome mat will be laid out at At 8pm in Dalton House Day Care […]
We haven’t posted in a while so here’s a synopsis of what we get up to. To date we have released 2 books. Both books were written by our book club that meets on Fridays. Below is a short story from one of the books. You can buy both books here. We meet every Wednesday […]
Our Year 2014.
During 2014 we lost 2 of our residents. Sam Gibbons lived in no.4 and will be sadly missed. He was a regular attendee at our Wednesday night session and could always be relied on for a song. See our tribute to Sam here. Liam O’Byrne lived in no.6 and up to his retirement he delivered […]
During April and May, Dalton House held a Creative Writing Course. With the financial support of the Kilkenny Leader Group we secured, renowned writer and winner of the Listowel Writers Week Comedy Essay competition, Gerry Moran to deliver his creative writing course. Over the six weeks the participants enjoyed writing and sharing many short stories […]