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Author Archives: Lia Mills
Tree
This week’s grief was that we had to cut down a spruce tree that was thriving but too close to the house. Its roots threatened all kinds of trouble. We bought this tree to brighten the room where my mother was dying, … Continue reading
Launch of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann
On Sunday, 15th November 2020, the new Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann held an event to mark the Day of the Imprisoned Writer and to launch our new organisation. Strange to say of an online event but: there was a really … Continue reading
Stephen Collins & the Peaceful Transfer of Power (mach ii)
Thanks and apologies to the people who pointed out that Stephen Collins’ article in the Irish Times about the peaceful transfer of power in an Irish context (in my previous blog) is subscriber-only. Here’s the gist of what he said. … Continue reading
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Tagged Belarus, Ciara Meehan, Civil War, Cumann na nGaedheal, Democracy, Eamonn De Valera, Gill Books, Irish Times, Leinster House, peaceful transfer of power, People's Vote, Saving the State: Fine Gael from Collins to Varadkar, Stephen Collins, USA, WT Cosgrave
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Stephen Collins: Ireland faces its own threats to faith in democratic institutions
Here’s a link to a thought-provoking article by Stephen Collins in the Irish Times about the peaceful transfer of power in an Irish context. Read it and think how different we might have been. How democracy can rest on restraint … Continue reading
Svetlana Alexievich & the World’s Ambassadors
Three days ago, Nobel prize-winning writer Svetlana Alexievich (who is also President of PEN in Belarus) issued a statement saying that unknown persons were at her door. The last member of the Coordinating Council of Belarusian opposition to be imprisoned … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, PEN, Uncategorized
Tagged Alexander Lukashenko, Ann Linde, Belarus, Chernobyl Prayer, Conor O'Cleirigh, Coordinating Council of the Opposition, ILF Dublin, Maksim Znak, Nobel Prize, PEN, Second Hand Time, Simon Coveney, Svetlana Alexievich, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, The Unwomanly Face of War
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Sun Flower with Spider: lessons from a Covid summer
This Covid summer we spent more time at home than usual. The view from our windows deepened; ordinary things around us acquired detail, texture, specific gravity – even emotional meaning, now that we have the time to absorb those meanings. … Continue reading
Wanting all the Words: Elif Shafak in conversation with Emma Graham-Harrison ( A Guardian Live Event)
6th August 2020 UPDATE 11/08/20: Guardian Live have made the interview available here. (This is a long post but I didn’t want to lose any of what Elif Shafak said. Make yourself a cup of tea & settle in.) EGH … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Interview, On Writing, Uncategorized
Tagged 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World, Antonio Gramsci, Armenian genocide, Audre Lord, authoritarianism, Black and White for solidarity, Booker prize, Cemetery of the Companionless, dogma, Elif Shafak, Emma Graham-Harrison, Istanbul, language, Mahmoud Darwish, Ottoman dictionaries, populism, Street of the Cauldron Makers, the Istanbul Convention, Turkey, women in Turkey, Yazidis
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COVID-19 as Weapon
It has not taken long for authoritarian regimes to turn Covid 19 into a weapon. In Turkey, for example, thousands of people who were imprisoned for criminal offences including rape and murder have been released because of the risk of … Continue reading
Truth in the Dark (Nurcan Baysal)
Nurcan Baysal is a journalist and an award-winning human rights activist based in Diyarbakir, Turkey. She has been arrested and detained repeatedly for her writing about Turkish Kurdistan and for tweets she has posted concerning military assaults on the Kurdish … Continue reading
PHILIPPE SANDS and DANIEL GORMAN speak to English PEN
On 6th May, a Zoom meeting for members of English PEN heard Daniel Gorman (Director) and Philippe Sands (President) in conversation. The primary focus of the discussion was on Human Rights in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, but they … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Write, Human Rights, PEN
Tagged Ahmet Altan, Charlotte Von Wächter, Covid-19, Daniel Gorman, East West Street, English PEN, Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Write Campaign, Horst Von Wächter, I Will Never See the World Again, Irish Pen, Lockdown, NURCAN BAYSAL, Otto Von Wächter, PEN Charter, Philippe Sands, Rashomon, Run Lola Run, The Ratline, Virtual Vigils
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