Author Archives: libranwriter

An egg is not a bird. A seed is not a tree.

Posted on April 19, 2018

This blog was originally posted in 2013.  As we get closer to the referendum I am increasingly worried about the misinformation and distortion of facts I hear on the radio as reputable programmes try to present both sides of the … Continue reading →

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DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA – International PEN Call to Action

Posted on April 16, 2018

Leading international writers join PEN International in calling on Europe to protect press freedom in Malta Leading writers from Europe and around the world have written to the European Commission today, on the six-month anniversary of the brutal assassination of … Continue reading →

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TYPHOID MARY at the Viking Theatre, Clontarf

Posted on January 17, 2018

If you haven’t seen Charlotte Bradley & Bairbre Ní Chaoimh’s production of the late, great Eithne McGuinness’s TYPHOID MARY at the Viking Theatre at The Sheds, there are four performances left. Do yourself a favour and book your ticket now. This … Continue reading →

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HANNA SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON: SUFFRAGETTE AND SINN FÉINER by Margaret Ward (Launch)

Posted on October 5, 2017

In Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Suffragette and Sinn Féiner, Margaret Ward has undertaken the vast and painstaking task of compiling Hanna Sheehy Skeffington’s own writing (journalism, speeches, memoir), so that we can now get to know her in her own words. … Continue reading →

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Nicole Krauss in dlr LexIcon with Nadine O’Regan (28.08.2017)

Posted on August 30, 2017

Nicole Krauss was in Dun Laoghaire this week to promote her new novel, Forest Dark.  Nadine O’Regan (NOR) opened the conversation by remarking on how young Nicole Krauss (NK) was when she began to publish fiction and how quickly success came … Continue reading →

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Vividity (yes, that is a word) 

Posted on August 25, 2017

  In 1919 a town in Northern France donated a statue of the Sacred Heart to the Catholic Parish of Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) in memory of the Irishmen who fought and died in Flanders during World War 1.  Because … Continue reading →

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Guerrillas in the Mist

Posted on June 25, 2017

The recent Farmleigh House based project Pieces of Mind was inspired by Georges Perec’s An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris.  Following a conversation about this, fabulous Belfast poet Maria McManus sent me a link to her own exciting work … Continue reading →

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