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List of Brandon Books to be pulped

Copied from THINGS OF INTEREST DUBLIN If you have published work with Brandon Press, Kerry you need to contact the liquidator Sean …

Emer Martin quite accidentally discovered that the books published by the late and lamented Steve McDononagh’s Brandon Books are to be pulped …

In an age where business dominates our governments and writes our laws, every technological advance offers business an opportunity to impose new …

[there follows a rough draft of what was to be a chapter in my work-in-progress, now deleted. I'm publishing it here in …

you can click to enlarge and see slide show (hover mouse over middle right or left edge). June 16 is of course …

Photo owned by Dan Strange (cc) Yeats’ writings are now in the public domain, it now being seventy years from the end …

I’ve been preoccupied of late, so the conference mentioned in the Karlin Lillington article in the Irish Times passed under my radar. …

How should we describe the extraordinary consensus that existed in this country — a consensus that united us all around core concepts …

IT ALL begins with words. Words that teem and toss about, they stream and eddy. They’re torrential and pressing and insistent. They …

This sad news from Poetry ireland: Sydney Bernard Smith Poetry Ireland was saddened to hear of the passing of poet and writer …

Being the one-man band behind Irish Writers Online, I get a lot of requests for links, and of course I do my …

I don’t know how many events I can make myself, but the Dublin Book Festival is on from tomorrow till Sunday. See …

There is a fascinating excerpt from Clean: An Unsanitised History of Washing, by Katherine Ashenburg in today’s London Times. Excerpt from Clean: …

I wrote a small afterword for Michael Augustine‘s latest book in English, Mickle Makes Muckle, translated from the German by Sujata Bhatt …

Note: some of the links in this post will bring you to amazon.co.uk Just under a year ago, I had the pleasure …

Banville did it, Roddy Doyle did it, John McGahern, Sebastian Barry and Colm TÃ³ibÃn came close, but Anne Enright joins the tiny …