Sep 29, 2009 | Features
My address to the Planet K conference in Venice: Some years ago IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands wrote a great poem called ‘The Rhythm of Time’. In it he paid tribute to the uprising of the Roman slaves under Spartacus, to the Aztecs and Incas who were butchered by the...
Sep 29, 2009 | Latest
29th September. At unveiling in City Hall of official portrait of Tom Hartley as Mayor of Belfast, 2008-2009. 24th – 27th September. At the Venice Biennial for a conference, Planet K, dealing with the Kurdish situation from a political/cultural perspective on...
Sep 15, 2009 | Features
My memoir, ‘All The Dead Voices’, was published in 2002 but has now gone out of print. It was launched in Culturlann by the Mayor of Belfast, Alex Maskey, and there was a large crowd in attendance. However, just before the launch, when the representatives of Mercier...
Sep 12, 2009 | Features
How other writers work and compose interests me; which is why I often read many books which provide an insight into the writing life. There were several positive reviews of Graham Swift’s ‘Making An Elephant’ some months back and so I ordered it from my local library....
Sep 11, 2009 | Latest
11th September. Read ‘Making An Elephant, Writing From Within’ by Graham Swift, author of ‘Waterland’ and ‘Last Orders’. I saw the book reviewed only recently, ordered it from the Falls Public Library and – hey presto! – in it came a week later, brand new in hardback,...
