Mar 29, 2013 | Features
Fifteen years ago I covered for The Guardian and the Irish Examiner the negotiations which led to the signing on Good Friday of the Belfast Agreement. This is the feature I wrote (though slightly amended in The Guardian). Letitia Fitzpatrick from Ulster Television...
Mar 25, 2013 | Latest
Appeared at Scribes, a literary event organised by the Cork Life Long Learning Festival, last Friday in Spailpín Fánach on South Main Street. It was organised by Tina Neylon and was chaired by the irrepressible raconteur Seamus Hosey, former producer in the Features...
Mar 20, 2013 | Features
Dr Jörg Rademacher, the German translator of my novels, wrote a critical feature on Oscar Wilde as a follow-up to his 2011 translation of ‘Dorian Gray’ – ‘Das Bildinis des Dorian Gray’, published by Elsinor in Germany in 2012. This feature, now in English, can be read...
Mar 20, 2013 | Latest
Last Saturday (16th March) I spoke at an event in County Donegal, to commemorate Kevin Brady who was killed twenty-five years ago during the funerals of the three IRA Volunteers killed in Gibraltar. Good turn-out. Very emotional. 15th March. Introduced Senator David...
Mar 8, 2013 | Latest
Finished The Horologicon by Mark Forsyth, a hilarious, intelligent book about the lost words of the English language! Forsyth is the author of the 2011 best seller The Etymologicon. Here are just some of my favourites! Culf – the bed fluff that lodges in your navel....
