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Call for Writer in Residence
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council invites applications for a writer in residence for the period October 2012 to May 2013. The writer in residence is a partnership between the Library Service and the Arts Office of the County Council. The residency seeks to support writers in all genres . The residency is envisaged as a part-time position which will allow time both for the writer’s own work in addition to engagement and interaction with the general public. At least one third of the time on this residency should be focused on the writer’s own work.
An event organised by Cavan County Council and Cavan Arts Office. To acknowledge the contribution made by Cavan Playwright, Author and Poet, Tom MacIntyre to the Arts. The event was captured by Cavantv.com.
Spider The spider in the corner of this ward Where somebody dies every single day Tenaciously weaves his grey web Next to the one who tomorrow will be gone. And curiously the patient watches him, How he produces that fine thread from his bod...
THEATER REVIEW: "Moment" at Steep Theatre ★★★★ ... The gripping, authentic new family drama at Steep Theatre, where nobody moved so much as a muscle for two hours on Friday night, is the work of Deirdre Kinahan.
Stephen O'Shea reviews The Absolutist, by John Boyne... What is it about the Great War and great writing? Even before the war had concluded, there was already an outpouring of poetry astounding for its volume and quality; in the years immediately thereafter, memoirists and novelists outdid each other in outlining the violence done to the mind by the conflict. The First World War became, to the literary, a world war won.
Here are 2 parts of a long television interview from Canadian television in which john Boyne discusses The Absolutist and his writing in general.
So you're an admirer of James Joyce 's "Ulysses"? Well, thank Trieste for that book. Why? Gordon Bowker's "James Joyce: A New Biography" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 608 pp., $35) shows readers how living in that seaport city in northeastern Italy helped rekindle Joyce's enthusiasm after the lackluster reception of "Dubliners" and his uncertainty over what readers would think of "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." The city not only gave him and wife Nora an income, it gave Joyce, as a teacher, an exceptional pupil: the writer Ettore Schmitz, known by the pen name Italo Svevo.
James Joyce: A New Biography By Gordon Bowker (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 608 pp., $35) THERE ARE CERTAIN artistic geniuses who demand that we should know their lives in detail, since for them the story of their lives is a living component of thewider story of their art. In this new biography of James Joyce—the first major one since Richard Ellmann’s monumental Life, now fifty years old—we encounter again an oft-told tale.
From the ephemera of romance to suicidal tendencies, Durcan's 22nd collection blends melody, horror and wry humour, says Kate Kellaway... Paul Durcan has a facility that is his best friend and worst enemy. He is the author of 22 books of poetry and his muse shows no sign of wishing to put her feet up. Of all his writings, the volume that most captivated me was Give Me Your Hand (1994), a theatrical gathering of poems inspired by paintings in London's National Gallery. But in this volume, the leading man is Durcan himself, and "leading" – as he might allow – is seldom the right verb. What is described here is vulnerability, depression, loneliness, bad luck in love, hours moping in Parisian cafes and eavesdropping in Dublin bookshops.
In the latest of an occasional series of stories, the Parisienne Madeleine notices similarities between her lover and a painting she likes. Nuala Ní Chonchúir’s new collection of short stories, Mother America, is published by New Island
Irish writer Belinda McKeon was awarded the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize yesterday (18th July) for her first novel Solace (Picador).
From May 1 to May 3, Caltech had the pleasure of a visit from Irish poet Sinead Morrissey. Raised in Belfast, Morrissey was awarded the prestigious Patrick Kavanagh award for poetry at the age of 18. Since then, she has published four collections of poetry and is currently a Creative Writing Lecturer at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast.
“DruidMurphy,” a cycle of three plays by Tom Murphy tied loosely by the theme of emigration, explores how the forces of history have shaped generations of Irish men and women. The Ireland of the painful past, the Ireland of the haunted present and perhaps the Ireland of the future are engaging in fractious battle in “DruidMurphy,” the latest adventure in epic theater-making by the invaluable Druid Theater Company, led by the brilliant director Garry Hynes.
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An adaptation of Dubliners by James Joyce is to open the capital's theatre festival.
The writer would have been amused by the ‘Bend it Like Beckett’ section of an upcoming festival in his honour in Enniskillen, writes GERRY MORIARTY. PROF JAMES Knowlson, the friend and authorised biographer of Samuel Beckett, was careful when he came calling on the writer. “For instance I learned never to make an appointment with him on Saturday afternoons when the international rugby games were on, particularly when Ireland and France were playing,” he says.
Author Keith Ridgway tells Metro about his 'unsolvable' new murder mystery novel Hawthorn And Child, a creative love-hate relationship with cities and a deep frustration with trashy writers..
One of Ireland’s most prestigious international literature awards faces an uncertain future as it may lose its funding from Cork City Council. The Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, now in its eighth year, may lose its funding according to Pat Cotter, administrator of the award and director of the Munster Literature Centre.
He feels that the award is very well known abroad and the outlay by the council is very worthwhile. The council cannot give him any guarantees about future funding beyond this year’s event.
SOUNDING BECKETT - a singular evening of theater and music that pairs three plays by Samuel Beckett from his."ghost period" with new works by contemporary composers written expressly in response to those plays - will be presented September 14-23 at the Classic Stage Company (136 E. 13 St.) in Manhattan.
Scarlett Thomas enjoys a breathtakingly unpredictable anti-novel... Hawthorn and Child are just as likely to be eating breakfast in a café in the background of someone else's story as they are to function as protagonists. When we first meet them, they have temporarily abandoned the gangster Mishazzo in order to investigate a shooting in which the victim thinks the perpetrator is a vintage car.
Carol Rumens: This week's poem shows us a multi-faceted Ireland through the prism of the pub, and a half-interior imaginary ramble... It's a month since Bloomsday was celebrated, but perhaps this week's poem, "Legacies" by Peter Sirr, will help sustain us until the next one. Sirr, like many Irish writers after Joyce, is something of an internationalist. A fine translator as well as original poet, he was born in Waterford in 1960, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and has lived for spells in Italy and Holland. "Legacies" appears in his Selected Poems (Gallery Press, 2004) and was first published in Bring Everything (Gallery Press, 2000).
The new Dedalus Press anthology, Airborne: Poetry from Ireland, is now available for the iPad via Apple's iBooks. Edited by Pat Boran and featuring over 150 pages of poetry from more than two dozen poets, together with a small selection of audio clips of poets reading their work, Airborne is the first such anthology from an Irish poetry publisher and will be an ideal introduction to contemporary Irish poetry for the student and general reader alike.
The Collected Poems of Samuel Beckett Edited by Seán Lawlor and John Pilling. Faber and Faber, 499pp.N SAMUEL BECKETT’S unpublished short story Echo’s Bones, the anti-hero of More Pricks Than Kicks, Belacqua Shuah, returns from the dead and watches a groundsman open his grave only to find a handful of stones. As Beckett’s archive continues to open up, it has discharged not just a few stray fossils but a veritable quarry of material, with two volumes of letters since 2009 and two more to come, not to mention the prospect of Echo’s Bones and Beckett’s German diary of 1936-7.
The story of John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown’s 1919 journey across the Atlantic in a converted Vickers Vimy bomber—the first nonstop transatlantic flight—is a true one. What made you decide to use it as fictional material in this... Oh, Lord, there are so many ways to answer this question. The quick, brutal version is that I began a novel a while ago, for which I was interested in the transatlantic journeys of two great Americans, Frederick Douglass, in 1845, and Senator George Mitchell in the nineteen-nineties. Both made spectacular and important visits to Ireland, and I was entranced by the idea of telling their stories. Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/04/this-week-in-fiction-colum-mccann.html#ixzz21JCJeApv
By Seamus Heaney... High burdened brow, the antlers that astound,
Arms that end now in two hardened feet,
His nifty haunches, pointed ears and fleet
Four-legged run … In the pool he saw a crowned
Stag's head and heard something that groaned
When he tried to speak. And it was no human sweat
That steamed off him: he was like a beast in heat,
This just in: The Irish really know their way around telling a story. Yet despite America's eagerness to embrace Irish culture for one Guinness-addled day every March, few are familiar with many of the island's titans of the written word beyond an ambitiously purchased copy of "Ulysses," a tear-stained "Angela's Ashes" or perhaps stumbling through the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" during the holidays. Consider celebrated Irish playwright Tom Murphy, whose name falls below the radar in mainstream American pop culture.
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