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 readers in the festival include Seamus Heaney, Hugo Hamilton, Alison Norrington, Orna Ross (Ãine McCarthy), …Read the Rest
Archive for March, 2006
Literary Evening
An unusual and busy evening tomorrow, Wednesday. March 29th. The Beckett Centenary Festival is opened by the Minister for Arts, …Read the Rest
What Fresh Hell is This?
via Arts & Letters Daily, a great story at Book Forum about Dorothy Parker, who I quote, usually under my …Read the Rest
A Road Runs Through Tara
I’ve only now found Colm Tóibín’s piece in the New York Times about Tara. A Road Runs Through Tara (free …Read the Rest
The Real Reason?
Is this the real reason why Britain joined the US in invading Iraq? See the New Statesman article.
Hill of Tara / M3 Motorway
It isn’t often I attend an event to read just one poem, but that’s what I’ll be doing on Friday …Read the Rest
Video of Digital Rights Ireland talk
“The video of the talk by Suw Charman in Trinity College in cooperation with the TCD Legal Workshop is now …Read the Rest
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