Towards a Poetics of Anger
How should we describe the extraordinary consensus that existed in this country — a consensus that united us all around core concepts …
Chumann scríbhneoirí Óga/Úra na Gaeilge
Being the one-man band behind Irish Writers Online, I get a lot of requests for links, and of course I do my …
The Cultural Life
Between OS problems, service provider problems, wireless problems, paypal problems, domain problems, general sociability and the cultural life in central Dublin, there …
150th Anniversary of Shaw’s Birth
This is the 150th Anniversary of the birth of George Bernard Shaw. See the Wikipedia entry on Shaw
Oil as Comedy
This takes a while, probably an hour, to watch, but its sheer brilliance makes the time slip by. Robert Newman’s History of …
Happy Birthday, Mr Beckett
Had he lived till now, Samuel Beckett would be 100 today. Happy Birthday, Mr Beckett, whether, to your surprise, you are in …
Literary Evening
An unusual and busy evening tomorrow, Wednesday. March 29th. The Beckett Centenary Festival is opened by the Minister for Arts, Sports and …
‘You really liked it, huh? You really thought it was good?’
Some lovely quotes in The Guardian from Beckett Remembering Remembering Beckett, to be published by Bloomsbury next month, in good time for …