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. Featured [...]
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 pm, supported [...]
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 [...]
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