The offices of an insurance company may seem an unusual place to hold a book launch but in poet Greg Delanty's case, it made perfect sense. Greg's book, The Hellbox, is based on his time spent working in the Eagle Printing Company on Oliver Plunkett Street in Cork, and the book's title is the name of the bin into which printers chuck the old and broken type. The premises now houses PMPA.
Greg, who now lives in Vermont with his wife Paddy, was surrounded by family, including his mother Eileen, his uncle Dick and cousin Fred Kenneally. A touch of nostalgia was added when Mick Dunlea, who worked in the Eagle Printing Company with Greg's late father Dan Delanty, arrived full of stories of their time at the press.
Adi Roche of the Chernobyl Children's Project also came along to enjoy the hooley.