My collaborator on Irish Literary Revival, Patrick Chapman, has an interview on
Authortrek.
His first collection of stories, The Wow Signal, will be published in the near future by Bluechrome in the UK.
As Todd Swift on Nthposition put it:
“If Cronenberg and Lynch were to have a child (and in some film-possible world they might) he [...]

The National Library of Ireland has described as a “major boost for Irish scholars” its acquisition of an extensive collection of 800 printed and other items by and about Samuel Beckett.
see report in The Irish Times

Delighted to report that Rosemarie Rowley’s poetry collection The Sea of Affliction is now on Irish Literary Revival for free download under a Creative Commons Licence.
She joins
Berkeley, Sara
Casey, Philip
Chapman, Patrick
Duffy, Noel
McDonagh, Terry
O’Driscoll, Ciaran
O’Mahony, Nessa
Wall, Wiliam
More very soon…
Irish Literary Revival

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, [...]

Novelist Colm Tóibín 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 [...]

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. [...]

I was greatly saddened to read this morning of Clare Boylan’s death. I only met her on a few occasions but found her warm, generous personality delightful. She was a fine writer and will be sorely missed. This is from The Irish Times
Irish Times Article - Author Clare Boylan dies aged 58
“Author Clare Boylan dies [...]

Patrick Chapman and I have created a new website, Irish Literary Revival, and it is officially launched today, May 1, 2006.
In a nutshell, it hosts out-of-print and out-of-circulation books by Irish authors, in digital form, but under a Creative Commons licence/license. Check the website or the Creative Commons FAQ if you’d like to [...]

I’ve uploaded The Fabulist in different formats (Word, PDF, Open Office 2), though I’m sure there’s work to be done on them. Endless work when you start this - you (or at least I) always miss some detail.
Anyway, it’s at The Fabulists, if you want to check it out.
A website with a similar [...]

It’s taken me almost a year since I first mentioned it to my agent, Lisa, and publisher Antony Farrell, but at last I’ve got around to putting my first novel The Fabulists, online for free downloaded under a Creative Commons Licence (or License, if you are American).
Initially I’ve posted it in WordPress, one chapter [...]