Dec 13, 2011 | Features
Dr Jenny Farrell is a lecturer who lives in Galway but was born in Germany and lived in East Berlin for many years. In this obituary she pays tribute to the writer Christa Wolf who has just died: One of the most important 20th century German women writers, Christa...
Nov 9, 2011 | Features
We went to Venice for a city break. I had been there two years ago speaking at a conference. This time I had more free time to explore the city. We went to the Guggenheim Museum of modern art, which contains fairly incomprehensible art from the first half of the...
Oct 7, 2011 | Features
Wrote a feature for the Irish Times about the Presidential race in the south which was published yesterday, along with several other mainly anti-Martin McGuinness contributions. Here it is: Pearse and Connolly woke up one Easter Morning and decided to seize the GPO....
Sep 8, 2011 | Features
‘Pigeons on the Grass’ is Wolfgang Koeppen’s 1951 novel about Germany emerging from the chaos of WWII and is probably set in Munich in 1948 during one twenty-four hour period of the American-occupation, and includes among its host of characters two US GIs, a writer...
Jun 16, 2011 | Features
Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre surely had their tongues protruding from their cheeks like gumboils when they claimed that they believed they could be killed if the interviews they carried out as part of the Boston College project were handed over to the British...
Apr 27, 2011 | Features
My mother died two weeks ago and was buried in Milltown Cemetery in the grave of my father, who predeceased her by ten years. She suffered a massive heart attack. I was actually chairing the AGM of Féile an Phobail when Alice, one of the carers at Grovetree...
