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Category Archives: Interview
Another Alice: Interview with Shauna Gilligan
Thanks to Shauna Gilligan for this generous, thoughtful interview about the new Arlen House Classic Literature edition of Another Alice. There’s a Foreword by Paula McGrath and an Afterword by Lia. Cover image by Carmel Benson. This is #53 in … Continue reading
Interview: Marian Therèse Keyes on Anna Maria Hall (1800-1881)
This interview marks the publication of A Life of No Light Toil: The Anna Maria Fielding Hall Reader Edited and Introduced by Marian Thérèse Keyes, one of the 2022 Arlen Classic Literature Series. Is this your first book, Marian? This … Continue reading
Posted in Interview, Irish Women's Writing, Publishing, Writing Ireland
Tagged Anna Maria Hall, Anne Makower, Annie Smithson, Arlen Classic Literature, Arlen House, Áine McGillicuddy, Betty stenson, Catherine Dunne, Christopher Fitz-Simon, Concepta Lynch, David Gunning, Dun Laoghaire LexIcon, Jennifer Johnston, Kate O'Brien, Lia Mills, Limerick School of Art & Design, Marian Thérèse Keyes, Nigel Curtin, Victoria & Albert Museum
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The Flowering
Look! It’s a Woman Writer!: Irish Literary Feminisms 1970-2020, edited by Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and published by Arlen House is an anthology of essays by 21 Irish women writers who were born in the 1950s. Ní Dhuibhne gave contributors (full … 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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Life in Direct Provision Centres
Ireland’s system of Direct Provision for asylum seekers was only ever meant to be temporary in the lives of the people who are housed within it but many people find themselves trapped there for years. Twenty years after its inception, … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Interview
Tagged Direct Provision, Donnah Vuma, Every Child Is Your Child (ECIYC), Fighting Words, Front Line Defenders, Leo Varadkar, Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI), Now We're Cooking, Red Line Book Festival, Rev. Vicki Lynch, The Irish Times, University of Limerick, University of Sanctuary, Yes We Still Drink Coffee!
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Interview with Celia de Fréine: On writing a biography – in Irish – of Louise Gavan Duffy
LM: Congratulations, Celia: your biography (in Irish) of Louise Gavan-Duffy – Ceannródaí – has been shortlisted for the very first Irish language category in the upcoming Irish Book Awards. For as long as I’ve known you, you have consistently championed … Continue reading
Martina Devlin: On Writing Truth and Dare
(Martina Devlin talks about her latest book, a collection of short stories: Truth And Dare: Short Stories about Women Who Shaped Ireland) * LM: Why did you decide to write fiction about these real historical figures, rather than historical/biographical accounts? Martina … Continue reading
Posted in Interview, On Writing
Tagged Anne Devlin, Arnold Bennett, Constance Markievicz, DH Lawrence, Dorothy Macardle, Edith Somerville, Hannah Sheehy Skeffington, Henry James, Henry Joy McCracken, James Pinker, Kathleen Lynn, Martina Devlin, Mary Ann McCracken, Maud Gonne. Somerville and Ross, Poolbeg Press, Sinead Gleeson, Somerville and Ross, Speranza, the Ascendancy, The Glass Shore, Violet Martn, William Golding
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Nuala O’Connor & Sarah Maria Griffin at the LexIcon (October 23rd)
This blog is disgracefully late, but I still want to record elements of a most enjoyable interview/conversation that took place in the Dun Laoghaire LexIcon a fortnight ago between Nuala O’Connor (Nuala Ní Chonchúir) and Sarah Maria Griffin (SMG), current … Continue reading
Posted in Interview, Publicity & Promotion, Writing
Tagged Becoming Belle, Café Royale, Claire Keegan, Dun Laoghaire LexIcon, Ernest Hemingway, Inventing the Victorians, Isabel Bilton, Jane Austen, Julia Cameron, Louis de Paor, Matthew Sweet, Mike McCormack, Miss Emily, National Archives (Kew), National Gallery of Ireland, National Portrait Gallery (London), Nuala Ní Chonchúir, Nuala O'Connor, Sarah Maria Griffin, The Hunt Museum
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Interview with CATHERINE DUNNE
Catherine Dunne is the author of ten novels and one work of non-fiction: An Unconsidered People, a social history of Irish immigrants in London. Her first novel was published in 1997. Her ninth, The Things We Know Now, won the … Continue reading
Posted in Interview
Tagged Agamemmnon, apostrophes, Catherine Dunne, Clytemnestra, Confucius, Federica Sgaggio, gender violence, Irish Book Awards, Irish Writers Centre (sic), Laureate for Irish Fiction, Laurie Penny, Macmillan, marital violence, Mary Beard, Men Explain Things To Me, Mythology, Novel of the Year, onoma, Rebecca Solnit, The Giovanni Boccaccio Prize, The Things We Know Now, The Years That Followed
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