The Irish Times (registration only) has confirmed that Peter Kavanagh, younger brother of the poet Patrick Kavanagh, is to be buried at Inniskeen in Co Monaghan, following his death on Saturday in New York at the age of 89. The article by Seán O’Driscoll in New York and Marie O’Halloran quotes Colm McCann‘s recollection that [...]
I’ve just read on Pat Boran’s new Dedalus Press blog that Peter Kavanagh, brother of the poet Patrick Kavanagh, died yesterday in New York. May he rest in peace. I quote from Pat: His death will no doubt revitalise the discussion and debate which surrounds not so much his relationship to his famous poet brother, [...]
Terry McDonagh went to Hamburg this week for the publication of his new book for children, Boxes. I’ve just got a copy and it’s a beautiful piece of design by his publisher Blaupause Books of Hamburg. Terry is from Kiltimagh in Mayo, but having lived in Hamburg for more than twenty years, now divides his [...]
The BBC, with downloads of its archive confined to British TV licence-holders, and The British Library with its Turning Pages website, where you can browse through 15 books by authors as diverse as da Vinci, Mozart and Jane Austen, have been getting huge publicity, and rightly so. They are wonderful projects. Quite by accident I [...]