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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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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
CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY: Wednesday March 6th @ Toner’s (Baggot Street) at 7:30 pm
Here’s a small break in tradition: this blog doesn’t usually advertise events in advance (or ever) – but this event is different. The Freedom to Write Campaign group is organising an (almost) International Women’s Day Reading, hosted by Staccato Literary … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Freedom of Speech, Readings
Tagged Banshee Literary Journal, Celia de Fréine, Fighting Words, Freedom of Speech, Freedom to Write Campaign, Frontline Defenders, HADEEL BUQRAIS, International Women’s Day, Irish Pen, Irish Writers Centre (sic), Laura Cassidy, Lauren Foley, Lisa Harding, Maria McManus, NURCAN BAYSAL, PEN International, Staccato Literary Salon, Toner's Pub, Tracey Gallagher, WORD
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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
Women and 1916 (at Farmleigh)
The Stinging Fly night at Farmleigh was a big success, thanks to all our speakers (Declan Meade, Sean O’Reilly, Paul Lynch, Lisa McInerney, Elaine Feeney) and the musicians (Seán McKeon and Liam O’Connor), and to everyone who came along to listen. … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged Celia de Fréine, Declan Meade, Dr Kathleen Lynne, Elaine Feeney, Esosa Ighodaro, Farmleigh House, Liam O'Con, Lisa McInerney, Louise Gavan Duffy, Lucy McDiarmid, Medb Ruane, Paul Lynch, Roger Casement, Sean O'Reilly, Seán McKeon, St Ultan's Hospital, Stinging Fly, the New Woman, Tina O'Toole
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Two Cities One Book (ii)
A lot of people ask about the Two Cities One Book experience and I thought I might write about it a little, in the blog. Nothing like this has ever happened to me before, it’s as new to me as it … Continue reading
Posted in Events, FALLEN, Two Cities One Book festival 2016, Uncategorized
Tagged Beth, Celia de Fréine, Dictionary of National Biography online, DLR LExicon, Emer Casey, Fallen, Great War centenary, Hot Press, Katie, Libraries NI, Oxford reference online, Two Cities One Book, Write Here Write Now competition
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Hidden Irelands (an interview with Celia de Fréine in the Dublin Review of Books)
This is the text of a recent essay based on an interview with the poet and playwright Celia de Fréine, published by the Dublin Review of Books at http://www.drb.ie/essays/hidden-irelands HIDDEN IRELANDS (by Lia Mills) Blood Debts, by Celia de Fréine, Scotus … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Writing Ireland
Tagged A lesson in Can't, Aisteoirí Bulfin, An Triail, Údarás na Gaeltachta, Blood Debts, Blood Scandals (Ireland), Brecht, Brian Merriman, Celia de Fréine, Conall Morrisson, Dublin Review of Books, Eavan Boland, Equal Status Act, Fiacha Fola, Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnachta, Hepatitis C, Jonathan Wade, Lia Mills, Luz Mar Gonzalez Arias, Mairéad Ní Ghráda, Marina Tsvetaeva, Mark McKee, Máire Mhac an Tsaoi, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Pinter, Scarecrows at Newtownards, Scotus Press, Shakespeare, The Midnight Court, Umbrella Theatre Company, UNHRC
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Events and Submissions
Apologies for the long silence – I was overtaken by events of my own, as it happens. Here’s a quick posting of some upcoming events & openings for submissions. I’ll be back soon with some thoughts on historical fiction in … Continue reading
“Modern Ireland has Nothing to Inspire Modern Writers” (2)
Thinking about responses (both verbal and online) to the previous post, “Modern Ireland has Nothing to Inspire Modern Writers”, I realised that I had more to say on the topic. Too much, probably, so I’ll confine myself to what seems … Continue reading
Posted in On Writing, Writing Ireland
Tagged Anne Enright, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Carlo Gébler, Celia de Fréine, Charlie McCArthy, Dave Coffey, Dermot Healy, Dublin Review, Eugene O'Brien, Flat Lakes Festival, Joanna Russ, Kevin Power, Mark O'Halloran, Mia Gallagher, Molly McCloskey, Nighthawks, Stinging Fly, The Anti-Room, The Glór Sessions, William Wall
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