Sep 18, 2014 | Latest
I am half-way through The Marquise Of O- (And Other Stories) by Heinrich Von Kleist, a German playwright and author of novellas dealing with violence and mystery. In 1811 thirty-four-year old Kleist in a suicide pact with Henriette Vogel who was dying from incurable...
Aug 19, 2014 | Features
A friend from Colorado asked me was I ever in La Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris. Several times I was there and in 2003 wrote a feature about it which appeared in my book, Rebel Columns. It was titled ‘And Outcasts Always Mourn’. Here it is: Foremost,...
Aug 17, 2014 | Features
This afternoon I went to the Ulster Museum to see the exhibition ‘Art of the Troubles’ which brings together the work of 50 artists and their responses to the Troubles. My favourite piece was ‘Year in Black Taxis: January-December, 1989’ by Belfast-born...
Aug 15, 2014 | Latest
Féile na bhFlaitheartach (Liam O’Flaherty Summer School) will be held on Inis Mór in the last weekend in August (30-31). See clár below: Saturday August 30 10.30am Ferry departs from Ros a’Mhíl/Rosaveel to Inis Mór. 11.15am Ferry arrives in Cill Rónáin – Local...
Aug 4, 2014 | Features
One hundred years ago Britain entered Britain and Ireland into World War I. Thousands of books have been written about that period. In 1996 I reviewed Myles Dungan’s Irish Voices from the Great War (which has recently been reissued) for the Sunday Tribune, and, later,...
