Jun 19, 2018 | Features
This year’s O’Flaherty Festival programme has just been released. The annual event, which is aimed at promoting the writings and work of Liam and Tom O’Flaherty, will be held over the weekend of 25th/26th August, on Inis Mór. Full details can be...
May 28, 2018 | Features
Finished Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje, one of his earliest novels, published in 1976. It wasn’t as good as, again, another of his earlier novels, In The Skin of a Lion. It’s the story of Buddy Bolden, a legendary cornet player in backstreet New...
May 25, 2018 | Features
This is a photograph of Nordahl Grieg, a Norwegian, who was killed as a war correspondent on a bombing mission over Berlin. A poet, novelist and journalist, he was a Stalinist until the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Hitler and Stalin at which point he became an...
May 13, 2018 | Features
This is from my book, All The Dead Voices, which was published in 2002, and was dedicated to my sister, Susan, who died at the age of forty four. In 1974 Susan moved to Antrim and in 2001 she died in the hospital there from an autoimmune disease, Primary Biliary...
May 13, 2018 | Features
I don’t agree with everything in this feature by George Madden but it makes some interesting points. Over the years I have come to object to the way that some – including some Irish republicans – still assume a privilege of Irishness. There is a...
