MICHAEL PATTWELL was born in 1945 in Clonakilty, Co. Cork, Ireland. He has worked as a bakery worker, a Customs Officer a Court Clerk, a businessman and a lorry driver before he took up the study o...view moreMICHAEL PATTWELL was born in 1945 in Clonakilty, Co. Cork, Ireland. He has worked as a bakery worker, a Customs Officer a Court Clerk, a businessman and a lorry driver before he took up the study of law as a mature student in 1971 and qualified as a solicitor in 1976. He was appointed a judge of the District Court in 1990 and retired in 2011. He is also a woodturner and photographs of his work, as well as newer poems, can be seen on his website: www.michaelpattwell.comview less