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Edith: A Novel (Interview with Martina Devlin)

Posted on June 2, 2022 by Lia Mills

1921. While Treaty negotiations are being conducted in London, Ireland is a restless, uncertain, dangerous place. Edith Somerville is in her family home, Drishane House in Castle Townshend. The Somervilles, an Ascendancy family, have been there for centuries but their … Continue reading →

Posted in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Novels, On Writing, Uncategorized | Tagged Ayot St Lawrence, Call me Madame, Castle Townshend, Charlotte Bronte, Countess Markievicz, Curves of Emotion, Dame Ethel Smyth, Drishane, Edith Somerville, Edith: A Novel, Flurry Knox, George Bernard Shaw, James Pinker, Martina Devlin, Nigel Playfair, Nora Barnacle and James Joyce, Somerville and Ross, The Big House of Inver, The House Where it Happened, The Irish RM, The Real Charlotte, Violet Martin | 3 Comments

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 →

Posted in Events, Freedom of Speech, PEN, Uncategorized | Tagged #MessagetoMargaret, @My_Mums_Voice, Aontas na Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge, Bez Martin, Blindboy Boatclub, Caoifhionn Gallagher QC, Caroline Brogan, Church of England, Church of England Ecclesiastical Court (Coventry), City of Reconciliation, Colum Eastwood, Conor McGinn, Conradh na Gaeilge, Consistory Court, Court of Arches (Canterbury), Coventry, Craig Tracey, Diocese of Coventry, English PEN, Fiona Audley, Good Friday Agreement, Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Labour Party Irish Society, Lindisfarne, Margaret Keane Gravestone case, Martina Devlin, Mary Rachel McCabe QC, Mo Mowlam, Nation's Favourite Epitaph, Oliver Goldsmith, Oscar Wilde, Owen Bowcott, Paula Kelly, Samuel Johnson, Scottish PEN, Spike Milligan, Stephen Eyre QC, Wales PEN Cymru | 1 Comment

Message To Margaret Campaign (Margaret Keane Gravestone Case)

Posted on February 11, 2021 by Lia Mills

You may have read about a recent case in England where the Ecclesiastical Court of the Church of England in Coventry refused permission for the family of Margaret Keane to include an inscription in Irish on her gravestone without translation. … Continue reading →

Posted in Freedom of Speech, Human Rights | Tagged @My_Mums_Voice, Aontas na Scríbhneoirí Gaeilge, Church of England Ecclesiastical Court (Coventry), Fiona Audley, Irish Independent, Irish Post, IrishPEN/PEN na hÉireann, Labour Party Irish Society, Margaret Keane Gravestone case, Martina Devlin, Message to Margaret | Leave a comment

No Small Talk (Brexit: the Use and Abuse of Language)

Posted on November 6, 2019 by Lia Mills

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 →

Posted in Brexit, Events | Tagged Bobby McDonagh, Carlo Gébler, Catherine Dunne, Celia de Fréine, Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, Evelyn Conlon, Eventbrite, Irish Writers' Centre, Jo Burns, Lia Mills, Margo Gorman, Martina Devlin, No Small Talk, Sophia Hillan, Teachers' Club | 6 Comments

Martina Devlin: On Writing Truth and Dare

Posted on November 8, 2018 by Lia Mills

(Martina Devlin talks about her latest book, a collection of short stories: Truth And Dare: Short Stories about Women Who Shaped Ireland) * LM: Why did you decide to write fiction about these real historical figures, rather than historical/biographical accounts? Martina … Continue reading →

Posted in Interview, On Writing | Tagged Anne Devlin, Arnold Bennett, Constance Markievicz, DH Lawrence, Dorothy Macardle, Edith Somerville, Hannah Sheehy Skeffington, Henry James, Henry Joy McCracken, James Pinker, Kathleen Lynn, Martina Devlin, Mary Ann McCracken, Maud Gonne. Somerville and Ross, Poolbeg Press, Sinead Gleeson, Somerville and Ross, Speranza, the Ascendancy, The Glass Shore, Violet Martn, William Golding | Leave a comment

HANNA SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON: SUFFRAGETTE AND SINN FÉINER by Margaret Ward (Launch)

Posted on October 5, 2017 by Lia Mills

In Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Suffragette and Sinn Féiner, Margaret Ward has undertaken the vast and painstaking task of compiling Hanna Sheehy Skeffington’s own writing (journalism, speeches, memoir), so that we can now get to know her in her own words. … Continue reading →

Posted in Launches, Workshops | Tagged Ailbhe Smyth, Arlen House, Betty Friedan, Caitríona Crowe, civil liberties, Contraceptive Train, Eileen Proctor, European courts, Feminism (waves of), Garrett Fitzgerald, geography, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: Suffragette and Sinn Féiner, history, Ivana Bacik, June Levine, Kathleen Lynch, Late Late Show, Manelwatch, Margaret Ward, Martina Devlin, Maud Gonne, Nell McCafferty, Noelle Moran, Orla Feely, Our Bodies Ourselves, quotas, Repeal the Eighth Amendment, RIA, school curriculum, Sinn Féin, socialist feminism, Sojourner Truth, Susan B Anthony, UCD Press, Unmanageable Revolutionaries, Virago Press, Widow's Pension, Women for Election, Women's Coalition | 5 Comments

THE GLASS SHORE: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland (Launches)

Posted on October 6, 2016 by Lia Mills

The Glass Shore: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland has been thoroughly launched – first in Belfast, then in Dublin (take a bow, New Island). The Belfast launch was held in a packed and buzzing Ulster … Continue reading →

Posted in Launches, Publishing | Tagged Anne Devlin, Anne Enright, Belfast, Bernie McGill, Dan Bolger, Dublin, Evelyn Conlon, Gore Vidal, Hannah McPhillimy, Hodges Figgis, Jan Carson, Lucy Caldwell, Martina Devlin, Mo Mowlam, New Island, Patricia Craig, Ruth Carr, Sinead Gleeson, The Glass Shore, The Long Gaze Back, Uster Museum, women writers | 2 Comments

McKenna’s Fort @ the New Theatre 21st March – 2nd April 2016

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Lia Mills

Featuring Michael Bates as Roger Casement Written by Arnold Thomas Fanning Directed by Paul Kennedy ************************************** In the post-show discussion that followed Saturday night’s performance of this new play, Arnold Fanning was asked by co-panellist Martina Devlin why he didn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in Plays | Tagged Arnold Thomas Fanning, Eibhear Walsh, Gethsemane, Martina Devlin, Mary Moynihan, McKenna's Fort, Michael Bates, New Theatre, Paul Kennedy, Roger Casement, Séamas Ó Síocháin, The blck Diaries, The White Diaries | Leave a comment

About Sisterland: An Interview with Martina Devlin

Posted on September 24, 2015 by Lia Mills

Sisterland is a 22nd century world run by women, as imagined by Martina Devlin. After a cataclysmic war in which the male population was decimated, women took over. Men in Sisterland are controlled through the administration of testosterone-reducing drugs ‘for their … Continue reading →

Posted in Interview | Tagged About Sisterland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charlton Heston, Extremism, Herland, Lois Lowry, Margaret Atwood, Martina Devlin, Planet of the Apes, PR consultants, Spin doctors, The House Where it Happened, Timbuktu (Film), Ursula Le Guin | 1 Comment

Taking the Plunge (DLR Libraries)

Posted on May 16, 2015 by Lia Mills

TAKING THE PLUNGE is an anthology of writing across several genres commissioned by DLR libraries from new and established local writers. The book was edited by Vanessa Fox O’Loughlin. A series of lunchtime readings – with music – will run on Tuesdays … Continue reading →

Posted in Readings | Tagged Angela Finn, Brambles Café, Ciara O'Dowd, Cliona McCabe, Dave Kenny, Denise Deegan, DLR LExicon, DLR libraries, Iggy McGovern, Lia Mills, Lucinda Jacob, Mark Granier, Martina Devlin, Michelle Read, Sarah Webb, Sinéad O'Loughlin, Studio Theatre, Vanessa Fox O'Loughlin | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Martina Devlin

Edith: A Novel (Interview with Martina Devlin)

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

Message To Margaret Campaign (Margaret Keane Gravestone Case)

No Small Talk (Brexit: the Use and Abuse of Language)

Martina Devlin: On Writing Truth and Dare

HANNA SHEEHY SKEFFINGTON: SUFFRAGETTE AND SINN FÉINER by Margaret Ward (Launch)

THE GLASS SHORE: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland (Launches)

McKenna’s Fort @ the New Theatre 21st March – 2nd April 2016

About Sisterland: An Interview with Martina Devlin

Taking the Plunge (DLR Libraries)

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