Irish Ambassador to Bulgaria Geoffrey Keating (R) and Sofia Municipal Council chief Vladimir Kisyov unveiled verses of famous Irish poet Mairtin O' Direain in Sofia on Thursday. Photo by Kameliya Atanasova (Sofia Photo Agency)
Weeks before Bulgaria's EU accession, moving verses by Irish poet Mairtin O' Direain adorned one of the walls of the biggest shopping and entertainment mall in the capital.
Irish Ambassador to Bulgaria Geoffrey Keating and Sofia Municipal Council chief Vladimir Kisyov unveiled the verses of the famous "Honesty", encrusted on a granite panel in Bulgarian, Irish and English. The visitors of the Mall of Sofia will be the first to read the poem.
The event is part of the Wall-to-Wall Poetry initiative, a project of the embassies of the EU-member states, the candidate member states and the European Commission.
Each embassy has adopted a wall in the centre of Sofia, which is decorated with a poem in the language of its country. The aim of the project is to promote the diversity of European languages and literature.
So far a dozen EU countries have decorated various Sofia buildings' facades with poetry from their homeland - the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Poland, Greece, UK, Luxembourg, Sweden, Portugal and Hungary.