Maurice Scully (1952-2023) was born in Dublin. After many years living in Italy, Africa and the west of Ireland, he settled with his wife and four children in Dublin, where he lived and taught until his untimely passing. His creative work over many years was devoted to a single vast project under the overall title of Things That Happen , which consists of 5 Freedoms of Movement (Etruscan Books, 2nd revised edn, 2001), Livelihood (5 books, plus a prelude, interlude and postlude, Wild Honey Press, 2004), Sonata (Reality Street Editions, 2006) and Tig , the coda to the whole work (Shearsman Books, 2006). This is one of the most remarkable poetic enterprises in recent Irish letters. The entire work was issued a single volume by Shearsman Books in 2020, and was followed by an unrelated volume, AIRS , in 2022.