Oct 26, 2009 | Latest
18th September – 23rd September. In East Friesia, Germany, on a visit to schools and colleges to address English Language and Literature students. Spoke at Aurich, Vocational School; Ubbo-Emmius-Gymnasium, Leer; Gymnasium, Rhauderfehn; Teletta-Groß-Gymnasium, Leer;...
Oct 8, 2009 | Latest
5th October. Attended a disturbing play in the Old Museum, ‘Transparency’. It was written by Suzie Miller and directed by Rachel O’Riordan. The play has resonances with the case of the two 10-year-olds who murdered two-year-old Jamie Bolger in Liverpool in the early...
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 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,...
Aug 13, 2009 | Latest
13th August. Just came across a brilliant site where you can access over two hundred short stories by Anton Chekhov . 12th August. Did interview with Ben Williams, a post-graduate student/researcher based at the University of Liverpool who is studying a thesis on “the...
Jul 10, 2009 | Latest
10th July. Received a letter from the Press Complaints Commission acknowledging my complaint that the ‘Irish News’ refuses to carry a retraction in relation to false information it published by Richard O’Rawe about myself [and Gerry Adams]. 8th July. Spoke at the...
