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The Irish Literary Times
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Gerard Beirne
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Emily Watson for BBC London bombings drama 
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Poetry Readings @UCD: To celebrate Dublin City Public Libraries' One City, One Book initiative, poets read their own works included in the book "If Ever You ...
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Colum McCann, Donal Ryan, Eimear McBride, Deirdre Madden and Frank McGuinness have been shortlisted for this year’s Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, whose €15,000 prize makes it the most lucrative available solely to Irish authors. The shortlist was announced by this year’s adjudicators, author David Park and Eileen Battersby, Literary Correspondent of The Irish Times. More than 50 novels were submitted for the award.
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Frank McGuinness, Professor of Creative Writing at the UCD School of English Drama and Film, University College Dublin, is to receive the 2014 Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Irish Literature.
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Frank McGuinness’s new play, The Hanging Gardens, and Arimathea, the novel he thought he should write as research for it, draw deeply on his experience of growing up in a threatening, oppressive Ireland...
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He came from out foreign and he spoke wild funny. All the older girls thought he was the last word from the day and hour they set eyes on him but they were stupid, and he would no more look at them than if he was the man in the moon. I don't know where that shower got the notion that he was the kind of fellow listened to the likes of them. Was it because of the way some of them sprawled in front of him, were they expecting him to draw them?
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Few Irish playwrights seem to have a greater sense of the national mood –
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THREE dedicated actors are embracing 'the method' for their latest work – and suffering for their art. Matt Keast, Sam Pomeroy and Mark Sidey have shed weight, hit the gym, binned their razors...
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Professor Frank McGuinness was born in Buncranna, Co. Donegal and now lives in Dublin, where he lectures in English at UCD.
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Last night 21st February, Professor Frank McGuinness was awarded the Irish PEN Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. It was a truly remarkable evening, with great writers celebrating a great writer. In a touching and emotional speech, twice Booker nominated Sebastian Barry presented him with the award: FRANK MCGUINNESS PEN Lifetime Achievement Award 2014 By Sebastian Barry Now let me speak of the loveliest man I know. Most fierce in his work, most gentle in his life. This is a Lifetime Achievement Award and it is a lifetime since we first met. 1981. I was toiling up the stairs to the offices of Wolfhound Press in Dublin, wondering what awaited me at the top. There was an editor going to talk to me about two short novels, two very short and very un-commercial novels, that Wolfhound was nevertheless going to publish. I was 26 so I suppose Frank must have been…
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The challenge taken up by longtime collaborators Frank McGuinness and director Patrick Mason in stagingThe Hanging Gardens is how to stage a coherent representation of a failing mind. This is not a necessarily new challenge (King Lear comes to mind), but it’s certainly a worthy one. More and more of us are living longer and as such are increasingly susceptible to the extreme breakdown of both body and mind as we grow ever older. It’s almost certain most of us will be confronted with the loss brought on by dementia, either firsthand or by witnessing a loved one succumb. In McGuinness’s newest play for the Abbey several metaphors are staged in order to articulate this experience of loss from the viewpoints of both the sufferer of dementia and his family, and while not all these metaphors are successful in their execution, the overall effect is devastating.
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Patrick Mason and Frank McGuinness discuss the rehearsal process of The Hanging Gardens and the challenges of presenting new work. The Hanging Gardens runs o...
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There are two equally exciting strands to the news that Frank McGuinness’s first novel will be published next month. McGuinness, renowned playwright and poet and, as Professor of Creative Writing a...
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