His monologues are every St. Patrick’s Day paradesince nineteen seventy four; his private thoughtsfilthier than the old Eyre Square jax. His political views are like Curran’s Hotel,not there anymore, but his words still subversiveas someone putting an orange jumpsuiton Liam Mellows’ statue. His greatest stroke of luckdrums and face paintingthe day she stepped out of a carand thought: ‘I could live here’. Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars met 19 years ago today on January 22nd 1999 and have been together ever since. They married in 2005 and have co-organised Over The Edge, probably Ireland’s longest running literary reading series, since 2003.

Source: The Irish Times January 22, 2018 09:56 UTC