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David is from Ireland and is married to Ruth and rejoices in four children.<\/p>\n
Originally a lawyer and then becoming a hippy of the late 60\u2019s and early 70\u2019s he enjoyed thumbing around Europe and going to various rock festivals until finally deciding to give substance to his pastimes. Consequently, David became an international trade consultant and adviser who worked for a number of companies in Western Europe and the USA and then Eastern Europe until finally arriving in Bahrain 8 years ago. During his travels his work involved establishing new commercial enterprises for a number of authorities across the private, banking and government sectors and in the end he ended up as a personal adviser to both the Ministers of \u2018Finance\u2019 plus \u2018Industry and Commerce\u2019 of a small economy on the shores of The Black Sea\u2019. His experiences allowed him to work with personalities whose responsibilities were on the opposite side of the coin to those who are normally spending it! As a founder of some enterprises in Ireland and America David still retains joint ownership of \u2018The Wine Appreciation Society\u2019 in Ireland plus \u2018The Irish Snail Company\u2019 and a couple of other joint ventures (Bohemian Amphorae and Mayoruna \u2013 depending upon what work needs to be done!).<\/p>\n
During his term in Bahrain David\u2019s most satisfying achievement was to join \u2018The Bahrain Writer\u2019s Circle\u2019 and then personally formulate The Second Circle\u2019 poetry group in readiness for what annually became \u2018The Colours of Life Poetry Festival\u2019, and as a result finds himself forlornly looking back at a most astonishing event that was populated by the most wonderful troupe of poetry performers he has ever known.<\/p>\n
Since returning to Ireland in the summer of 2015 David has gone on to form the \u2018Lismore Poetry Circle\u2019 and is preparing for the first \u2018Colours of Life Poetry Festival\u2019 in Ireland and to which he is hoping to create a link with Bahrain in the future. David has been invited to provide workshop and mentoring programmes for the benefit of aspiring and enthusiastic poets within his local region of Ireland and is also working with a drama group responsible for touring the nation and putting on performances which reflect some of the history of the country.<\/p>\n
David is the author of \u2018Waiting Spaces\u2019<\/a> which is an eclectic collection of some of his poems, and plans are also being progressed for the publication of a second assortment that should be due by the end of 2016. Allied to these is a variety of essays he also expects to see published within the next twelve months as well as three scripts for the stage. David is also a contributor to the bestselling \u2018My Beautiful Bahrain\u2019<\/a> and \u2018More of My Beautiful Bahrain\u2019<\/a> plus \u2018Poetic Bahrain<\/a>\u2019. He\u00a0has also contributed to three separate editions of \u2018The Taj Mahal Review\u2019 as their literary critic. David continues to be the in-house poet of \u2018Bahrain Confidential\u2019 and consequently enjoys a readership of approximately 100,000 persons a month. He is keen to re-visit you all in Bahrain and wishes everyone great funalot and smile<\/p>\n David is from Ireland and is married to Ruth and rejoices in four children. Originally a lawyer and then becoming a hippy of the late 60\u2019s and early 70\u2019s he enjoyed thumbing around Europe and going to various rock festivals until finally deciding to give substance to his pastimes. Consequently, David became an international trade…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-203","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bwcbh.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bwcbh.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bwcbh.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bwcbh.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bwcbh.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bwcbh.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":869,"href":"https:\/\/bwcbh.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bwcbh.com\/welcome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"51JIPu0IAqL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_\"](\"https:\/\/bahrainwriterscircle.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/51jipu0iaql-_sx331_bo1204203200_.jpg?w=200&h=300\")
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