Pat Ingoldsby

Pat Ingoldsby is an Irish poet. He has hosted children's TV shows, written plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories, and been a newspaper columnist. Since the mid-nineties, he has withdrawn from the mass media, and is most widely known for his books of poems, and his selling of them on the streets of Dublin. The poems in his books vary starkly between humorous and sad.

Pat's work

In the 80's, Pat hosted children's TV shows named Pat's Hat, and Pat's Chat, and he appeared regularly on Bosco as a story reader.

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In the early nineties, he had a column in the Evening Press (a now-gone newspaper of Ireland). These stories were later published as The Peculiar Sensation Of Being Irish.

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Pat is a fluent Irish speaker and includes a few poems written in Irish in each book of poetry.

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He lives in Clontarf, in Dublin, Ireland. Since sometime in the mid-nineties (?), he has withdrawn from TV, Radio, and play writing. Writing poems has replaced these outlets. Pat is still part of Ireland's Arts scene, sometimes opening Art exhibitions http://www.art.ie/viewevent1.asp?ID=22778, introducing then-new musicians such as David Gray http://homepage.tinet.ie/~drunken/interview1.html, or launching other peoples books http://www.malahidecameraclub.com/club_reviews99_00.html.

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He publishes his own books through Willow Publications, which he set up and named after a late cat.

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His books since 1998 have carried a note that they are protected by the "Bratislava Accord 1993, section 2 cre/009 manifest-minsk", the terms of which allegedly protect his book's content from being included in:

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• school textbooks
• examinations
• elocution classes
• anything with the word "Arts" in it.