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Tag Archives: Dun Laoghaire
Vividity (yes, that is a word)
In 1919 a town in Northern France donated a statue of the Sacred Heart to the Catholic Parish of Kingstown (now Dun Laoghaire) in memory of the Irishmen who fought and died in Flanders during World War 1. Because … Continue reading
Ann Patchett at dlr LexIcon
(Interviewed by Edel Coffey) Ann Patchett was good fun at the LexIcon last night. She love-bombed her audience from the beginning and it has to be said, the audience was primed and more than happy to love her back. It … Continue reading
Posted in Events, On Writing
Tagged Ann Patchett, Bel Canto, Bert Wright, Bloomsbury, Commonwealth, DLR LExicon, dlr Library Voices, Dun Laoghaire, Edel Coffey
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HOW TO GROW YOUR BRAIN (Dalkey Book Festival)
Question: If the Bord Gais Energy Theatre pitched up in Dalkey overnight, could Sian Smyth fill it? I suspect she could. Dalkey was thronged this weekend and it was only partly due to the weather, because when it was time to … Continue reading
Can Dun Laoghaire Be Saved? (Dalkey Book Festival panel)
I thought the people clustered at the gate leading in to the Secret Garden at Dalkey Book Festival were volunteers and ticket-takers, but they were from the Dun Laoghaire Ratepayers Association and they were handing out copies of their newsletter. … Continue reading
Posted in Dalkey Book Festival
Tagged Ann Marie Hourihane, Bruce Katz, Carlisle Pier, Dalkey, Derek Benett, Dolly Parton, Dun Laoghaire, Dun Laoghaire Business Improvement District, Eamon Morrisey, Findlater's, Gas Company Theatre, Glasthule, Harry's Cafe, Monkstown, Murdoch's, Murray's Record Shop, Nando's, Patricia Stewart, Peter Pearson, Starbucks
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Big Red Button
Hugo Hamilton’s new novel Every Single Minute was launched in a packed County Hall (Dun Laoghaire) last Thursday. Reviews have been respectful, if slightly uncertain. How fictional can a novel be when it makes no effort to hide the fact … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Memoir, Novels
Tagged Anne Enright, Dun Laoghaire, Hugo Hamilton, Nuala O'Faolain, WG Sebald
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“For This: Poems for Our Ireland” (A session at PN11)
At a Saturday afternoon session of the 2011 Poetry Now Festival in the Pavilion Theatre in Dun Laoghaire, sixteen readers, some of them poets participating in the festival, and some invited notables, were invited to read a poem that reflects … Continue reading
Posted in Readings, Writing Ireland
Tagged Alice Leahy, Borbála Faragó, Brian Lynch, Dave Lordan, David Norris, Dermot Bolger, Diarmaid Ferriter, Dun Laoghaire, Gerry Smyth, Jinx Lennon, Joseph Woods, Leanne O'Sullivan, Michael Cronin, Miriam O'Callaghan, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Pavilion Theatre, Poetry Now, Seamus Heaney, Sinead Morrisey, Vincent Woods
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