Apr 10, 2009 | Latest
9th April. Finished my children’s story, ‘Bradbury’s Place’, which is about a fat cat that has to go on a diet. It is probably far too ‘fat’ at 4,500 words. 8th April. Finished reading ‘Franz Schubert – A Biography’ by Elizabeth Norman McKay. 6th April....
Apr 10, 2009 | Features
“Few know the secret of love” was a poem by the mystical poet Novalis which Schubert set to music. Although it is a setting of religious music I think the implicit sadness of the lyrics apply to Schubert who died a bachelor and whose illness precluded any meaningful...
Mar 16, 2009 | Features
My review of ‘The Truth Commissioner’ by David Park has just been published in the online scholarly journal of AEDEI, the Spanish Association for Irish Studies. Here it is in full. Last January the Consultative Group on the Past (a British-appointed body) published...
Mar 16, 2009 | Latest
13th March. Interviewed by BBC Radio Ulster about Radio Free Belfast in August 1969, and what effect the pogroms had on my life. 11th March. Finished ‘Numbers in the Dark’ by Italo Calvino. Liked ‘Dry River’, ‘Like a Flight of Ducks’ and ‘Beheading The Heads’, but...
Mar 6, 2009 | Features
In Belfast today [6th March] I officially launched a book, an autobiography, by 34-year-old Diego Fernando López Jaramillo, a member of the Colombian guerilla group ELN, who is serving 40 years in La Modelo Prison, Bogota. The book was smuggled out of the prison by...
