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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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Suspension of UK Parliament, August 2019 (1)
Yesterday (28th August) Boris Johnson asked the Queen to suspend Parliament and she agreed. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) and Jo Swinson (Lib-Dem) sent letters to the Queen asking her to refuse BJ’s request but they were too late; she had already … Continue reading
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Tagged Abingdon Green, Arlene Foster, Boris Johnson, Brexit, De Valera, Downing Street, Gina Miller, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Swinson, Joanna Cherry, John Bercow, Michael Collins, Nicky Morgan, Nicola Sturgeon, Offred, Parliament Square, People's Vote, Philip Hammond, Privy Council, Prorogation of Parliament, Queen's Speech, Scottish Independence, Theresa May
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BREXIT (The night Theresa May’s deal was voted down)
Reuters reports today that there are plans afoot to move the Royal Family out of London if things turn sour I didn’t intend to blog about Brexit, but this jogged my memory. We were in London in the middle of … Continue reading
Posted in Brexit, Uncategorized
Tagged Anna Soubry, Boris Johnson, Brexit, David Davis, Jo Cox, John Bercow, Laura Kuenssberg, Leave, Michael Gove, People's Vote, Remain, Theresa May
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DAPHNE CARUANA GALIZIA – International PEN Call to Action
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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Nicole Krauss in dlr LexIcon with Nadine O’Regan (28.08.2017)
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
Posted in Events, Novels, On Writing, Uncategorized
Tagged Bert Wright, Bloomsbury, Dante's Inferno, dlr Library Voices, fiction, Forest Dark, Gilgul, golem, Holocaust, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Kafka, Keats, language, Nadine O'Regan, Negative Capability, Nicole Krauss, Obama, Shakespeare, Social Media, Third Reich, Trump
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Internment, anyone?
This blog is usually about the arts but artists are citizens too. The UK election is tomorrow. In Ireland we worry about the Border, no matter how officialdom tries to placate us. Now there’s something else to worry us: Today’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Border, Guantanamo, Human Rights Law, Internment, Molly McCloskey, Terror legislation, Theresa May, UK election
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Sally Rooney at ILFD 2017 (With Rick O’Shea in Belvedere House)
Sally Rooney is a phenomenon. She’s very young (26) but we can’t hold that against her. She has talent, energy, a strong sense of the world her generation inhabit and a direct way of talking (and writing) that is instantly … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Belvedere House, Billie Holiday, Conversations With Friends, Dublin Review, Elizabeth Strout, Ella Fitzgerald, Franny & Zooey, Ian Maleney, ILFD 2017, Irish Times, James Joyce, JD Salinger, Julie London, Michael Stapleton, Miles Davis, Rick O'Shea, Sally Rooney, Sarah Gilmartin
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An egg is not a bird. A seed is not a tree.
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 →