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O’Casey Revisited

O’Casey Revisited

An abbreviated version of this feature has already appeared online but this is a much fuller piece by the Galway-based lecturer and writer, Jenny Farrell, who is also an Associate Editor of Culture Matters. The sixtieth anniversary of Seán O’Casey’s death fell on 18...

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Powerful Collection

Powerful Collection

Just read More Tales About Life, Love & Death by Paul Marauder, a collection of poems and flash fiction dedicated to the struggle of the Palestinian people and their suffering in Gaza. The writing is potent, visceral and personal, often in the first-person, and...

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‘A Little Gem’

‘A Little Gem’

Jake Mac Siacais* reviews Greenisland Press’s recently-published novel, McCoubrey, set in Portadown just before and after the introduction of internment in 1971. WHEN asked by my good friend Danny Morrison to review Mark B McCaffery’s debut novel, McCoubrey, I...

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Gritty and Realistic

Gritty and Realistic

Longlines, the new novel by Galway author Caoilte Breathnach, is a book which straddles several genres, telling a story which is at times gritty, realistic, and at other times speculative. Layered through it all is a shrewd eye for detail and a finely-tuned ear for...

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‘McCoubrey’ published this week

McCoubrey is a novel by Mark B. McCaffery and is being launched in Portadown tonight, 2 May. Below is a description of the novel and its author and here is the audio of an interview with the author on BBC's Good Morning Ulster which can be found at 2 hours and 20...

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Karl & Groucho, et al

Karl & Groucho, et al

Writer and poet Eoghan ‘Gino’ Mac Cormaic* reviews a new book of poetry by north Belfast man Scott McKendry which is published today. -oo0oo- By way of introduction to Scott McKendry’s first full poetry collection Gub, the author offers a dictionary-style definition...

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Far Above The World – Book Review

Far Above The World – Book Review

It is not that easy to depict in fiction the mind of a child: the innocence, the naivety, the vulnerability, the ignorance, sensitivity, the misperceptions, the misreading of the adult world. Yet, Michael Flavin* has achieved that objective quite brilliantly,...

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Marwan Barghouti – A Palestinian Hero

Marwan Barghouti – A Palestinian Hero

This feature was published twenty years ago in my book, Rebel Columns, which was issued by Beyond The Pale. Marwan has been in jail for the past twenty-one years. Marwan Barghouti - A Palestian Hero In a dangerous or threatening situation one or two individuals within...

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NATIVE SHORE

NATIVE SHORE

Finished this novel in the early hours and just wanted to congratulate the author, journalist and playwright Phil Mac Giolla Bháin, for the way he melded and contrasts aspects of the republican struggle for a united Ireland with Scotland’s attempt to secure...

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Poetry Book Reissued

Poetry Book Reissued

I was honoured and proud to be involved in the publication of Eoghan (Gino) Mac Cormaic’s poetry book, the pen behind the wire. I’d previously worked with Gino in editing his book about the H-Block prison protest, On The Blanket. So, it’s great that the poetry book...

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