Irish Times Family Notices LIDDY, James Daniel – November 5, 2008, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, late of Coolgreaney, Gorey and 8, Mary Street, Wexford, Deeply regretted by his sister Nora, his friend Jim Chapson, cousins, relatives and friends. R.I.P. Funeral Prayers will take place at Murphy’s Funeral Home, The Avenue, Gorey tomorrow (Saturday) at 11.15 o’clock [...]
…The sad, baffling news of James Liddy’s death, the mentor of my youthful verse and friend of almost 40 years. I always thought he would live to a ripe old age, still having fun, still dazzling us with his Wildean erudtion and high-class gossip. He was born on The Night of the Long Knives,as he [...]
A special thanks to all who made it to my Out to Lunch reading in the Irish Writers’ Centre last Friday (see previous entry). I had forgotten it was a bank holiday, so a lot of friends family and acquaintances couldn’t make it. Some of them were working through the lunchhour. So it was a [...]
To those of you who regularly dip in – and there are a few – apologies for my long silence here. I haven’t been well since August, but thankfully am beginning to surface again. Last February or March, the inimitable John MacNamee asked me to read in his amazing Out to Lunch series. Amazing as [...]