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Chapters and Verse Reading - Oran Ryan and Philip Casey

March 16th, 2008 at 1:10 pm » Comments (0)

Tempus fugit.
When I was asked some time ago by Sarah from 7Towers to read with Oran Ryan, March 19th seemed like an age away.
Now suddenly it’s here.
In case you think that Chapters is still in Abbey Street, it moved to a fine, spacious premises on Parnell Street, a minutes walk from the top of [...]



Pearse Hutchinson: An 80th Birthday Symposium, and other notes

December 14th, 2007 at 5:11 pm » Comments (0)

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 [...]



Casey on Parlour Review

December 11th, 2006 at 8:26 pm » Comments (2)

In the last post I wrote about Marion Kelly’s
The Parlour Review and stated an interest: I’m to be on the same show tomorrow, December 12 at 1pm.
It’s only available in Dublin, on FM 103.2 Anna Livia, but you may be able to listen to a streaming version live on the web by [...]



Irish Literary Revival, 21st Century

May 1st, 2006 at 12:18 am » Comments (1)

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 [...]



The Fabulists :: Free Download :: Creative Commons

April 22nd, 2006 at 10:07 pm » Comments (1)

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 [...]



John McGahern dies suddenly

April 2nd, 2006 at 10:10 pm » Comments (0)

This is old news by now, but in case you haven’t heard, John McGahern died suddenly on Thursday, March 30th. I was on the road when his death was announced, en route to read with the delightful Scaldy Detail contributors in The Potato Market in Crescent Quay in Wexford town, so it was a shock [...]



The Scaldy Detail of the Wexford Book Festival

March 28th, 2006 at 9:34 pm » Comments (0)

I’m off to Wexford town on Thursday to read as a guest in Readings from The Scaldy Detail, at
8.00pm in The Potato Market on the Quays, as part of the Wexford Book Festival.
The Scaldy Detail, as I’ve mentioned before, is the Enniscorthy literary magazine edited by Eamonn Wall and published by LaunchPad.
Featured readers in the [...]



Hill of Tara / M3 Motorway

March 21st, 2006 at 9:53 pm » Comments (0)

It isn’t often I attend an event to read just one poem, but that’s what I’ll be doing on Friday night, in support of the M3 Motorway and the Hill of Tara Litigation Fund. The venue is Drimnagh Castle, Dublin, on Friday March 24, 6pm to midnight. A lot of money needs to be [...]



Dialogue in Fading Light: First print run gone

February 22nd, 2006 at 8:47 pm » Comments (1)

In these chilled days of February, it was warming news to hear that Dialogue in Fading Light, my new and selected poems which was published in November, is now out of stock as far as the publisher is concerned.
I know there are a few copies left in Books Upstairs in College Green, and there [...]



Quick Note

January 10th, 2006 at 11:02 am » Comments (0)

Just to say that I’m back up and running (insofar as a bacach like me can run) and my philipcasey.com email is back - for those who follow such important events.
I had a carefree time with my previous hosts for a number of years until December last, when the below-mentioned spam created havoc.
To cut [...]