This takes a while, probably an hour, to watch, but its sheer brilliance makes the time slip by.
Robert Newman’s History of Oil
Sublime, terrifying and cut-to-the-bone funny, where real life leaves the theatre of the absurd in the dust.
See also Robert Newman’s website
If you’re feeling low, have a look at this magnificent Killer Whale and its trainer on YouTube.
A Stanford University professor is sueing the James Joyce estate for right to quote works.
Carol Shloss, an acting English professor and Joycean scholar, challenged the estate’s assertion that she would be infringing on its ownership of Joyce’s image by quoting his published works, manuscripts and private letters on her site.
Instead, Shloss accused Joyce’s grandson, [...]
Kilkenny Labour councillor Seán O hArgáin has started a petition to save the RTÉ Radio 1 arts programme Rattlebag. Signatories are also pitching for John Kelly’s eclectic Mystery Train, which is also facing the axe. You can add your signature here
via Sinéad’s Sigla Blog, via StellaNova
Novelist Colm TóibÃn has become the first Irish author to win the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, for The Master, an absorbing portrayal of Henry James.
The award, which is worth €100,000, is the world’s richest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English.
Shortlisted for the 2004 Booker prize, Colm’s book was [...]
That you might live in interesting times is an old Chinese curse. These, however, are extraordinary times, and if you want confirmation of it just read the following articles.
First Officer Publicly Resists War
Was the 2004 Election Stolen?
My Blood on the Daisies
Like all great essayists, Thomas Lynch can take an incident and make it manifold, like the world seen in a drop of water. Here he speaks about what it means to hide the bodies of mobsters, regular folks and soldiers. Lynch lives in Milford, Michigan, near the site where the FBI are looking for [...]
Many congratulations to Sebastian Barry, whose novel A Long Long Way has won Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award at the opening of Listowel Writers’ Week.
The novel is about a soldier in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers during the first World War. The same soldier is a ghostly presence in Barry’s drama masterpiece, The Steward of Christendom. [...]
