Dec 4, 2009 | Features
This is a wonderful novel by Sebastian Barry and won the Costa Prize in 2008. For reasons that would be clear to cineastes, it made me wonder if Sebastian Barry had ever seen the film, ‘Madame X’! Roseanne McNulty, an Irish Protestant, who came through the Tan War and...
Dec 4, 2009 | Latest
28th November. As chair of Féile I introduce historian Dr Eamon Phoenix and Dr Jörg Rademacher who are speaking about the visit of James Joyce to Belfast exactly one hundred years ago. The event is co-sponsored by the ‘Belfast Telegraph’ and Féile an Phobail. 27th...
Nov 12, 2009 | Latest
10th November. The late Siobhan O’Hanlon, former IRA activist, Armagh prisoner, and latterly secretary to Gerry Adams MP, was in South Africa several times before and after the peace process proper. She and her partner, Pat Sheehan (one of the 1981 hunger strikers and...
Nov 12, 2009 | Features
I am heading off to Portugal and hope to write a feature on Lisbon, possibly to be included in a revised edition of ‘All The Dead Voices’, for a German publisher – though only a possibility and long way off. When I return I shall be putting the final touches to a talk...
Nov 3, 2009 | Latest
31st October. Greeted Noam Chomsky to West Belfast and Féile an Phobail before his address at St Mary’s University College, organised by our Discussion & Debate group. Later, we had dinner with him. He is very quietly spoken and draws upon a wealth of information...
