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Tag Archives: Sinead Gleeson
Martina Devlin: On Writing Truth and Dare
(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
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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
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THE GLASS SHORE: Short Stories by Women Writers from the North of Ireland (Launches)
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
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ALL ADVENTUROUS WOMEN: Nollaig na mBan @ the Irish Writers Centre*, 6th January 2016
Amy Herron introduced proceedings, telling us that the eight soap-boxers were given a brief to take: ‘All adventurous women do …” as a starting pont, and that each person would speak for four minutes, from a rather precarious and wobbly … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged 'The Opposite of a Thank You Letter', Amy Herron, Erin Fornoff, Evelyn Conlon, Irish Writers Centre (sic), Joanna Walsh, Lisa McInerney, Lisa O'Neill, Mary O'Donnell, Michelle Read, Nollaig na mBan, Not the Same Sky, Sally Rooney, Sinead Gleeson, The Book Show, The Lass of Aughrim, The Tunnel Club
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Worth Less? Some thoughts on the devaluation of writing by women
This piece was first broadcast on Arena (RTÉ Radio One) on 27th October 2015 * Recently I asked a friend what she thinks about anthologies of writing by women. Wouldn’t they be worth less than other anthologies? was her – … Continue reading
#readwomen (International Women’s Day)
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Mountains to Sea curator Bert Wright organized a panel discussion between Joanna Walsh, who started the readwomen hashtag, Sarah Davis-Goff of Tramp Press and Anne Enright, Ireland’s first Laureate for fiction. Sinéad Gleeson was in … Continue reading
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Dalkey Book Festival 2013 (Friday 14th – Sunday 16th June)
FRIDAY: Robert Fisk, in conversation with Pat Kenny (Church of the Assumption, Castle Street) It was raining hard in Dalkey on Friday evening, water splashing back from the pavement, people scudding along under umbrellas, not even peeking at passing celebrities. … Continue reading →