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....
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...
Feb 26, 2009 | Latest
25th February. Finished my review of ‘The Truth Commissioner’ by David Park which is to be published in 16th March in the online scholarly journal of AEDEI, the Spanish Association for Irish Studies – which can be found HERE. 23rd February. Finished reading my...
Feb 5, 2009 | Latest
31st January. Picked up from Falls Library the book I ordered: ‘The Curtain – an Essay in Seven Parts’ by Milan Kundera. 27th January. Did an interview with the World Service of the BBC on the future of the site of Long Kesh/H-Blocks and the Eames/Bradley report. My...
Jan 4, 2009 | Latest
Read Big Bad Love by Larry Brown, a collection of short stories sent to me by Deborah Kehoe from Oxford, Mississippi, who knew the author. Brown died four years ago at the age of 53 from an apparent heart attack. His characters are unhappy folk who love beer, brawling...
Dec 12, 2008 | Latest
December 1st Interviewed by Joe Austin on Feile FM – the festival radio station which continues to survive against all odds and funding cutbacks. You can hear the station on: http://www.feilefm.com/ Joe asked me to pick three pieces of music and to tell stories about...
