Aug 22, 2013 | Features
One night in 1956 the Argentinian writer Rodolfo Walsh was in a café in La Plata where he would play chess and talk about literature with friends. Here, six months earlier, when he was also playing chess, there had been a shoot-out at the time of a failed Peronist...
Aug 15, 2013 | Features
Finished No-No Boy by John Okada who died in obscurity aged 47 in 1970 believing that Asian America had rejected his work. This was his only published novel. When no one showed any interest in him his wife burnt the remainder of his writings. The novel, which was...
Jul 31, 2013 | Features
Was at the Linenhall Library today for the launch of a new theatre company aimed at giving expression to that lumpen section of the unionist community who for a variety of reasons feel marginalized and demonized and who have rarely received a ‘good’ press. Etcetera...
Jul 28, 2013 | Features
The newly-inaugurated Liam & Tom O’Flaherty Society’s first Summer School has just been announced to take place on Aran between 23 and 25 August. It is open to members and non-members alike and booking details can be got by emailing Jenny Farrell –...
Jul 25, 2013 | Features
Last week I was interviewed by journalist Brian Campbell. The interview is published in The Irish News today (25th July) under the heading ‘Morrison Looks Back in Time for his New Novel’. Here is the feature in full: Little did Danny Morrison know when he first heard...
Jul 24, 2013 | Features
Finished The Black Count by Tom Reiss, a brilliant and absorbing biography about the author Alexandre Dumas’ father, Alex, son of a black slave and aristocratic fugitive in Saint-Domingue [Haiti]. He rose to become a hero of the French Revolution, a general in charge...
