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Tag Archives: Catherine Dunne
Letters With Wings: When Art Meets Activism (Imagine! Belfast Festival)
This event, organised by Letters With Wings, was dedicated to the women artists Chimengul Awut (award-winning Uyghur poet) and Nûdem Durak (a folk-musician of Kurdish origin who is a political prisoner in Turkey). Participants included: Lia Mills (Chair of Irish … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Write
Tagged Ahmet Altan, Antje Stehn, Broken Glory, Burma, Caroline Stockford, Catherine Dunne, Celia de Fréine, Chimengul Awut, Constance Markievicz, Csilla Toldy, Eva Gore Booth, Evgeny Shtorn, Free the Poet, Freedom of Speech, Gianluca Costantini, I Will Never See the World Again, Ilhan Sami Çomak, Imagine Belfast Festival, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann, Kate Ennals, Letters With Wings, Lia Mills, Moyra Donaldson, Myanmar, Nandi Jola, Nûdem Durak, Norsk PEN/PEN Norway, PEN International, PENWrites, Simone Theiss, Viviana Fiorentino
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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
Imprisoned Voices: A Hearing
Today is PEN International’s Day of the Imprisoned Writer. Last night, the Freedom to Write Campaign held a poetry reading in the brilliant Parnell Square premises of Poetry Ireland, who were supporting the event, as was Irish PEN. The format … Continue reading
Posted in Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Write, Gigs
Tagged "June" PEN International poem relay (2008), Ahmet Altan, Anthony Glavin, Brian Keenan, Catherine Dunne, Celia de Fréine, Chimengul Awul, Colm Keegan, Cormac Breathnach, Daphne Caruana Galizia, Dawit Isaac, Eamon Sweeney, Erol Zavar, Freedom to Write Campaign, Galal El-Behairy, Harold Pinter, Irish Pen, June Considine, Kate Ennals, Lia Mills, Liz McManus, Maria McManus, Mountain Language, Nedim Turfent, PEN International, Poetry Ireland, poetry memorial, Shi Tao, Tal Al-Mahouli. Chris Murray, Toni Morrison
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No Small Talk (Brexit: the Use and Abuse of Language)
Are you concerned about the divisive rhetoric used during prolonged Brexit debates? Irish people living in Britain report noticing a change in atmosphere and attitudes when the Backstop was a live issue. Friends in the North are understandably sickened by … Continue reading
Found in Translation (Workshops)
Two weeks ago, I co-facilitated a residential writing weekend with Catherine Dunne at the fabulous Brewery Lane Theatre in Carrick on Suir, organised by the tireless Margaret O’Brien who also runs The Story House, based on the Arvon model of residential … Continue reading
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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Catherine Dunne & Roddy Doyle in conversation at the RDS
(Part of the Dublin: One City One Book programme for 2015) Dublin: One City, One Book is a Dublin City Council initiative, run by Dublin City Public Libraries. In the ten years of its existence it has grown from a handful of events to a month … Continue reading
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Tagged At Swim Two Birds, Catch 22, Catherine Dunne, Dublin City Council, Dublin City Libraries, Dublin: One City One Book, EL Doctorow, Enid Blyton, Family, Flann O'Brien, Ger Ryan, Greendale Community School, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Jane Alger, Joseph Heller, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Paul Mercier, Ragtime, Richmal Crompton, Rico Rodriguez, Riverdance, Roddy Doyle, Roy Keane, Royal Dublin Society, Something Happened, Studs, The Commitments, The Paperback Review, The Second Half, The Slave, The Snapper, The Specials, The Van, The Woman Who Walked Into Doors
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