The Tattooed Poets Project: Moira Egan's Literary Ink, A Little Bit of Ireland, All the Way from Rome

Today's tattoo comes to us from across the Atlantic, contributed by <a href="http://www.moiraegan.com/">Moira Egan</a>, a poet living in Rome, Italy:<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRDLITlP8uN9RK3LqTZ3pm9ZyB6HYJHifCQnphcFZkz45S2r9fqNsHNk6faMZXV2ZWrbRdxObcHpeo3NsaRARDNoyDZ57ok-OjrYSJQFwaNaxvcpAKIUKk6kF6MhIOnR2m_koFKA_ZDqI/s1600-h/Egan_ink.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323775206989612274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRDLITlP8uN9RK3LqTZ3pm9ZyB6HYJHifCQnphcFZkz45S2r9fqNsHNk6faMZXV2ZWrbRdxObcHpeo3NsaRARDNoyDZ57ok-OjrYSJQFwaNaxvcpAKIUKk6kF6MhIOnR2m_koFKA_ZDqI/s400/Egan_ink.JPG" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" /></a><br />Hers is a literary tattoo. Moira reports, it's:<br /><br /><blockquote>"A page corner from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Kells">Book of Kells</a> (an illuminated manuscript that's housed in <a href="http://www.trincoll.edu/">Trinity College</a>, Dublin), in this version, housed a couple of inches below my left <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavicle">clavicle</a>. <a href="http://vinniemyers.com/home.html">Little Vinnie</a> of <a href="http://littlevinniestattoos.net/portfolio.html">Little Vinnie's Tattoos</a> in Maryland is the artist, and this was done on Memorial Day of 1993. In fact, Vinnie was kind enough to open the shop that day for me and my brother and a friend. A good way to Memorialize a day."</blockquote><br />Moira added, "since I'm Irish-American, and a writer, well it seemed appropriate".<br /><br />Indeed, please check out one of Moira's poems, both in English and Italian, over on <a href="http://oxypoet.blogspot.com/">BillyBlog</a>.

The Tattooed Poets Project: Moira Egan's Literary Ink, A Little Bit of Ireland, All the Way from Rome

Today's tattoo comes to us from across the Atlantic, contributed by Moira Egan , a poet living in Rome, Italy: Hers is a literary tattoo...

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