Dec 3, 2014 | Latest
A friend in the USA, Barbara, sent me this crazy animated video of a “Sinn Fein Christmas party” which I found hilarious! You’ll need to activate Quicktime on your computer. Enjoy! ElfYourself
Nov 22, 2014 | Latest
Finished the final edit of West Belfast. Many thanks to Tina Neylon for the proofing and Seán Misteíl for the brilliant cover! Thomas Pago of Elsinor Verlag hopes to have the book out by early-to-mid-December. 1st November. At Nuremberg, Germany, the left-wing...
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 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...
Jul 17, 2014 | Latest
Finished a wonderful novel by Armagh-born but England-based writer John McMillan, The Soul of the City. It is a Bildungsroman, set in Belfast and London and is evocative of the 1960s and early 1970s so fine, lyrical and powerful are the detailed observations of mores,...
Jun 9, 2014 | Latest
Finished A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing by Eimear McBride, her debut novel, written about ten years ago but which only went into print last year after many rejection slips. She took quite a risk in the style of writing but this stream of consciousness narrative about...
