Feb 26, 2009 | Latest
25th February. Finished my review of ‘The Truth Commissioner’ by David Park which is to be published in 16th March in the online scholarly journal of AEDEI, the Spanish Association for Irish Studies – which can be found HERE. 23rd February. Finished reading my...
Feb 26, 2009 | Features
‘The Quigley Brothers’, a chapter from my book All The Dead Voices, has just been published on the Shared Troubles website . In it I write about the death of my best friend Jimmy Quigley [pictured left, at a wedding in 1971], an IRA Volunteer, who died in...
Feb 7, 2009 | Features
Pádraic Fiacc Fiacc saw through me right away and said to me very quietly but purposefully, “I am not sure if you are a baddie.” We then joked but although he is old and infirm he is no fool and can see through or rather can glimpse through you. I was introducing him...
Feb 6, 2009 | Features
Just finished reading Milan Kundera’s ‘The Curtain – An Essay in Seven Parts’. At the behest of my French friend Joelle, back in 1988, I read his novel ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’ and was almost immediately put off by some interpolation he made around page 40...
Feb 5, 2009 | Latest
31st January. Picked up from Falls Library the book I ordered: ‘The Curtain – an Essay in Seven Parts’ by Milan Kundera. 27th January. Did an interview with the World Service of the BBC on the future of the site of Long Kesh/H-Blocks and the Eames/Bradley report. My...
