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The Scaldy Detail of the Wexford Book Festival

March 28th, 2006 at 9:34 pm » Comments (0)

I’m off to Wexford town on Thursday to read as a guest in Readings from The Scaldy Detail, at
8.00pm in The Potato Market on the Quays, as part of the Wexford Book Festival.
The Scaldy Detail, as I’ve mentioned before, is the Enniscorthy literary magazine edited by Eamonn Wall and published by LaunchPad.
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Literary Evening

March 28th, 2006 at 8:26 pm » Comments (0)

An unusual and busy evening tomorrow, Wednesday. March 29th. The Beckett Centenary Festival is opened by the Minister for Arts, Sports and Tourism in Dublin Castle at 6pm, and Dedalus Press are launching Macdara Woods’ new book, Artichoke Wine, in the Boardroom of the College of Surgeons, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin, at 7 [...]



What Fresh Hell is This?

March 27th, 2006 at 11:34 pm » Comments (0)

via Arts & Letters Daily, a great story at Book Forum about Dorothy Parker, who I quote, usually under my breath, on a daily basis (”What fresh hell is this?” etc).
Her lawyers were the great New York lawfirm of O’Dwyer & Bernstein (yes, that Paul O’Dwyer) who of course were entrusted with her affairs [...]



A Road Runs Through Tara

March 24th, 2006 at 11:04 pm » Comments (0)

I’ve only now found Colm Tóibín’s piece in the New York Times about Tara.

A Road Runs Through Tara (free registration may be required).
See also The proposed route of the M3 toll-motorway through the Tara/Skryne valley hosted by NUI Galway.
See also Hill of Tara/M3 weblog



The Real Reason?

March 24th, 2006 at 3:08 pm » Comments (0)

Is this the real reason why Britain joined the US in invading Iraq?
See the New Statesman article.



Hill of Tara / M3 Motorway

March 21st, 2006 at 9:53 pm » Comments (0)

It isn’t often I attend an event to read just one poem, but that’s what I’ll be doing on Friday night, in support of the M3 Motorway and the Hill of Tara Litigation Fund. The venue is Drimnagh Castle, Dublin, on Friday March 24, 6pm to midnight. A lot of money needs to be [...]



Video of Digital Rights Ireland talk

March 2nd, 2006 at 9:43 pm » Comments (0)

“The video of the talk by Suw Charman in Trinity College in cooperation with the TCD Legal Workshop is now available.”
Get the links at antoin@eire.com »