Dylan Thomas replica writing shed 'sets sail' to Ireland

The replica of Dylan Thomas's writing shed is setting sail for Ireland as part of the DT100 celebrations.
In partnership with the festival, British Council Ireland is to take the replica of the shed across the Irish Sea to the Mountains to Sea dlr Book Festival from 12th-14th September 2014.
The shed will set sail on board the Stena Europe from Fishguard and makes the sea leg of its journey to Ireland courtesy of Stena Line ferries.
The shed - complete with curled pictures on the walls, boiled sweets on the desk and the poet’s jacket still hanging on the back of his chair – is on tour as part of Dylan Thomas 100, the year-long festival commemorating the centenary of the great Welsh writer’s birth.
The original shed sits above the Boathouse in the scenic seaside town of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, where Thomas lived with his wife Caitlin (whose family hailed from County Clare), and where he penned some of his most famous works including Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night and his play for voices Under Milk Wood.
There will be a number of special events taking place in and around the shed for festival-goers to enjoy from creative writing workshops for teenagers delivered by award-winning Welsh and Irish poets, Poetry Take-aways, a Dylan Thomas Poetry Soapbox with a surprise line-up of readers and in honour of Dylan’s love for words, the public will be invited to invent their own new word to be added to the ‘Dictionary for Dylan’, which the shed is adding to wherever it goes.
Eoin Colfer and Aneirin Karadog, the Children’s Laureates from both Ireland and Wales, will also come together for a lively event in the new dlr LexIcon and the weekend finishes with acclaimed poets Menna Elfyn, Nessa O’Mahoney and Nerys Williams discussing the man, his poetry and his legacy in a special event chaired by Siobhán Parkinson.