Mama Kaz in East Belfast

Represented Feile an Phobail, along with Geraldine McAteer and Angela Mervyn, at a fundraiser in Shorts Social Club for the inaugural East Belfast Arts Festival which gets off the ground this September. We were warmly welcomed and received and I spoke to a number of...

The ‘Terrified Twins’

In an editorial on the 16th May in the US paper, the Irish Echo, ‘Standoff Turns On Credibility Of Threats’, Ray O’Hanlon raises the question of how credible are the claims by Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre in the Boston College archives case that there is a grave...

A Small Circus – Fallada

Finished ‘A Small Circus’ by Hans Fallada. Love his writing though this would not be on a par with ‘Alone in Berlin’. It is set around 1928/1929 in a small provincial German town and opens with a cattle seizure by bailiffs followed by the consequences for the police,...