Mar 28, 2018 | Features
An old roué, Jirka, a retired shoemaker, in one breathless address, often course and absurd, is regaling some young ladies and tells them of another group of young ladies he also used to habitually address, six prostitutes (his ‘beauties’) out sunbathing in their back...
Mar 26, 2018 | Features
Read several books while I was away in Cuba. Also got to visit the grave in Havana of one of the authors, Alejo Carpentier, whose book The Kingdom of This World was published in 1957. Carpentier died in 1980. It tells the story of the black uprising against French...
Mar 20, 2018 | Features
As Frank González and I got out of the car we could hear the squeals and laughter of young children enjoying their mid-morning break in the hot sunshine. It reminded me of my old St Teresa’s, except no flag flew from a pole in our schoolyard and we never enjoyed such...
Mar 8, 2018 | Features
The vet lived across the street from Sean*. He was a vet by profession but also through duty and experience. Once lean, he no longer is. Was his father a fan of the King, I asked. When this was translated he laughed loudly then began singing with a voice that could...
Feb 13, 2018 | Features
My feature, marking the end of Gerry Adams’ term as Sinn Féin President, was published in last Friday’s Irish Times (9th February). Here it is: I’m sure that there is a little nervousness within Sinn Féin as Gerry Adams steps down as president of the...
