Sep 29, 2009 | Latest
29th September. At unveiling in City Hall of official portrait of Tom Hartley as Mayor of Belfast, 2008-2009. 24th – 27th September. At the Venice Biennial for a conference, Planet K, dealing with the Kurdish situation from a political/cultural perspective on...
Sep 11, 2009 | Latest
11th September. Read ‘Making An Elephant, Writing From Within’ by Graham Swift, author of ‘Waterland’ and ‘Last Orders’. I saw the book reviewed only recently, ordered it from the Falls Public Library and – hey presto! – in it came a week later, brand new in hardback,...
Aug 13, 2009 | Latest
13th August. Just came across a brilliant site where you can access over two hundred short stories by Anton Chekhov . 12th August. Did interview with Ben Williams, a post-graduate student/researcher based at the University of Liverpool who is studying a thesis on “the...
Jul 10, 2009 | Latest
10th July. Received a letter from the Press Complaints Commission acknowledging my complaint that the ‘Irish News’ refuses to carry a retraction in relation to false information it published by Richard O’Rawe about myself [and Gerry Adams]. 8th July. Spoke at the...
Jun 5, 2009 | Latest
27th May. Though it still requires some re-writing I finished the last chapter of my new novel, ‘Rudi’, but not with a flush of euphoria. It has been very long in the making even though it is quite short at 45,000 words but will probably grow. But it is the length I...
May 12, 2009 | Latest
11th May. Finished ‘Timbuktu’ by Paul Auster, always an interesting author. It is the story of two characters, a terminally-ill schizophrenic tramp, Willy G. Christmas, and his dog, Mr Bones, and is told from both characters’ point-of-view. At times moving and funny,...
