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Early versions of Irish Writers Online and Irish Culture Guide

Recently I was asked by an MA research student to give some background about Irish Writers Online. A most gratifying request, of …

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

I’ve never been to Alliouagana, but it has a special place in my heart, and indeed, in Irish history. Alliouagana is the …

click to enlarge James Joyce reading from Anna Livia Plurabelle FW. “Ireland sober is Ireland stiff. Is that the Poolebeg flasher?” [update: …

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 …

…The sad, baffling news of James Liddy’s death, the mentor of my youthful verse and friend of almost 40 years. I always …

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

Browsing through best-seller lists these days can be quite depressing. I don’t know any of the authors, either in the fiction or …

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

Brian Lynch will talk about and read from his novel ‘The Winner of Sorrow’ in Pearse Street Library next Wednesday 14 May …

A weekend honouring Pearse Hutchinson kicked off last night with a a fine interview with Hutchinson by Vincent Woods on the Arts …

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 …

Doris Lessing has won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Her citation reads: The Nobel Prize in Literature 2007 “that epicist of …

Two new books, out of thousands of others, are on the shelves today – The Wow Signal, by Patrick Chapman, and Redemption …