Feb 7, 2010 | Latest
7th February. On Royal Avenue on a freezing day I met Tom Mathews and knew/ That a pint of stout he would want, a pint that I might later rue.So, we went to Madden’s Bar to literally discuss the state of the literary nation. He had been in a shop, trying to buy Martin...
Feb 5, 2010 | Features
A few weeks ago Lara Marlowe in the Irish Times was reporting on the aftermath of the recent devastating earthquake in Haiti which killed upwards of 150,000 people. She wrote: “Before the earthquake, Haitian funerals were an occasion for celebration. Families splashed...
Feb 5, 2010 | Latest
5th February. Spoke last night at the book launch of ‘The Badness of Ballydog’ by Garrett Carr in the No Alibis Bookstore on behalf of Féile an Phobail and as part of our Spring Festival, Féile an Earraigh. Other events over the next few days – besides lots of...
Feb 5, 2010 | Features
Enjoyed ‘Slaughterhouse Five’ by Kurt Vonnegut (who died in 2007). It is a first person narrative by Billy Pilgrim and blends science fiction with Vonnegut’s own war-time experiences as a POW in Dresden, where he survived the Allied firebombing of that city on...
