Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Poetic Obituaries: [George Fennell] was also a musician,

playing the violin and piano, (Mozart and Wagner were his favourite composers) and a poet, his verse often humorous and in the style of Robert Service. His poem Resurrection, read eloquently by his elder daughter Sybil at his funeral, deeply moved the large congregation.

from Irish Times: Leading surgeon who wrote poetry and treated Saddam Hussein
then the-unscripted-self.com: Poems by George Fennell

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