Browsing through best-seller lists these days can be quite depressing. I don’t know any of the authors, either in the fiction or non-fiction categories. Anne Enright was in the top five for a while, which was cheering. I can normally take or leave lists, but when I came across this one from The Translators Association [...]
Being the one-man band behind Irish Writers Online, I get a lot of requests for links, and of course I do my best, but being as human as the next, I find that courtesy goes a long way. Muiris Ó Meara wrote me the following email, and I’m quoting in in full because I appreciate [...]
Brian Lynch will talk about and read from his novel ‘The Winner of Sorrow’ in Pearse Street Library next Wednesday 14 May at 6.30pm. Admission is free. see Brian Lynch’s website.
A weekend honouring Pearse Hutchinson kicked off last night with a a fine interview with Hutchinson by Vincent Woods on the Arts Show (December 13), RTÉ Radio 1 This evening it continues with Pearse Hutchinson: An 80th Birthday Sympo.sium 14-15 December 2007. in the Robert Emmet Theatre (2037), Arts Block, Trinity College Dublin, starting at [...]