some fish). Observations of Dublin are mostly humorous conversations overheard on the bus, or the characters he sees and talks to while selling his books on the streets. Some observations are not so cheerful as he also sees the drunks and the homeless of Dublin city, and the some aspects of modernisation which he isn't pleased with. His most distinctive style of poetry is his humorist style. A recurring character, Wesley Quench, appears in roles such as the driver of a Flying See-Saw Brigade. Another poem, "Vagina in the Vatican," depicts a vagina sneaking into the Vatican unstopped because no one knew what it was – except for a few who couldn't let slip that they did. He also occasionally produces stories for children. These are a childish version of his mildly surreal style. During the rapid increase in the use of mobile telephones, he offered a "Mobile Phone Euthanasia" services on the streets of Dublin, where he would destroy phones for annoyed owners. His cousin Maeve Ingoldsby is a playwright. Pat retired from selling his books on the streets of Dublin in 2015. Bibliography Poetry You've Just Finished Reading This Title Rhyme Doesn't With Reason Up The Leg of Your Jacket Welcome to My Head (Please Remove Your Boots) (1986) Salty Water (1988) Scandal Sisters (1990) How Was It For You Doctor? (1994) Poems So Fresh And So New ...Yahoo! (1995) If You Don't Tell Anybody I Won't (1996) See Liz She Spins (1997) Half A Hug (1998) Beautiful Cracked Eyes (1999) The Blue E-Tee Wet! (2000) Do Lámh I Mo Bhrístí (2001) The Frenchwoman and the Sky (2003) Once Upon A 'hide (2004) I'm Out Here (2005) Can I Get in the Bath? (2007) Once Upon A Wicked Eye (2008) I Thought You Died Years Ago (2009) Hitting Cows with a Banjo (2011) Pawmarks on My Poems (2013) Mise MacGiolla (2017) In Dublin They Really Tell You Things (Selected poems, 2022) Other works For adults Hisself (Play, Peacock Theatre, Dublin) When am I Gettin' Me Clothes (Play, Peacock Theatre, Dublin) (Later adapted for radio play on RTÉ Radio 1) The Dark Days of Denny Lacey (radio play, RTÉ Radio 1) She Came Up From the Sea (radio play, RTÉ Radio 1) Fire Is Far Enough (radio play, RTÉ Radio 1) Liffey Ever Is (radio play, RTÉ Radio 1) The Peculiar Sensation of Being Irish (short stories) (1995) Laugh