Nov 29, 2010 | Features
Wrote a feature for today’s edition of the ‘Andersonstown News’, which they titled: “From Most Wanted to Not Wanted in three decades”: A long, long time ago, when I was a teenager and hadn’t a clue about life, I applied for a job as a librarian. What a wonderful...
Nov 22, 2010 | Features
Read ‘A Walk On The Wild Side’ by Nelson Algren. The main character, Dove Findhorn, Texas son of an alcoholic preacher, is initially a bit of a greenhorn and too honest for his own good. “My pappy was a preacher of sorts,” he says. “The sort to make you throw your...
Nov 19, 2010 | Latest
Heard the sad news that publisher Steve McDonogh died a few days after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage. I had worked with Steve on the essay book on the hunger strike, published in 2006, and first met him about 1982. Presented prizes at Belfast Royal Academy...
Nov 11, 2010 | Latest
Interviewed on BBC’s ‘Talkback’ and UTV television re the non-wearing of the poppy by nationalists though SDLP leader Margaret Ritchie has now sprouted one, fully-formed. Wednesday 10th November. Along with others as guests I represented Féile an Phobail at East...
