Tag Archives: Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann

Victoria Amelina 1986-2023

Posted on July 14, 2023 by Lia Mills

Victoria Amelina, much-loved friend and valued colleague in the PEN family, active member of PEN Ukraine and friend to many PEN Centres, was a gifted Ukrainian writer and a war crimes researcher for Truth Hounds. She was killed by an … Continue reading →

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Letters With Wings: When Art Meets Activism (Imagine! Belfast Festival)

Posted on March 29, 2021 by Lia Mills

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 →

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Labour Party Irish Society Zoom (Supporting Margaret Keane’ s family campaign for an inscription in Irish on her headstone)

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Lia Mills

Last night the UK Labour Party Irish Society held a Zoom meeting concerning the case of a headstone in the graveyard of St Giles’ Church in the Diocese of Coventry. The family of Margaret Keane, who died in 2018, went … Continue reading →

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