Still no shortage of book launches and readings. Probable highlights in the next week or so are John Montague’s memoir, excerpted in today’s Irish Times, is on Monday, Sept 24 at 18.00 in the Irish Writers Centre, Dublin, launched by Fintan O’Toole. 26 September Mickle Makes Muckle by Michael Augustin Venue: Unitarian Church, 112 St [...]
I’m very glad to report that the third issue of dublin review of books, otherwise known as drb, is now online. Already I’ve read Evelyn Conlon’s fine review of Rebecca Pelan’s 2005 book Two Irelands: Literary Feminisms North and South (Syracuse University Press), called Praise for the Microphone. The joy of reading these reviews, and [...]
Hugh McFadden dropped me this (I reproduce it with his permission) A Limerick on the subject of the German Ambassador & the Celtic Tiger. Why don’t we start a competition? An astute German Envoy, Herr Pauls, said this Celtic Tiger appals: the feline lacks class, its manners are crass, and its fame is a load [...]
It looks like our revered Taoiseach isn’t the only international leader in trouble because a pal gave him a dig-out out in getting himself a pad. In France the authorities have opened an preliminary investigation into the purchase of an old apartment in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 2006, after the satirical magazine Le Canard Enchaîné revealed the [...]