Tag: Ireland
Celtic Myth in Contemporary Children’s Fantasy: Idealization, Identity, Ideology
In her investigation of the use of Irish and Welsh mythology in literature for children in recent years, Dimitra Fimi discusses Pat O’Shea’s The Hound …
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The Financial Lives of the Poets
The reputation of Seamus Heaney was built at least partly on the way he dealt with the big issues of his time and place – the Troubles in Northern Ire …
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Wicked Game
People read genre novels principally for comfort. It matters little whether the content is satanic, criminal, romantic or vampiric; the familiarity of …
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Wonderfulgood: A Look at Variety in the Dublin Performance Scene
It is hard to explain the experience that is the Wonderfulgood Collective. A group of artists, musicians, spoken word performers, and writers, they ar …
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The Scattering
Jaki McCarrick’s new collection of short stories features a terrain and concerns that have been present in a writing career garnering numerous prizes …
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and he leans against the door frame and asks have I ever read Wislawa Szymborska He says I should not concern myself with questions on the nature and …
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Keeping Up with the Joneses, NWR at Hay Festival 28 May 2013
The Landmarc 100 stage at Hay Festival was the aptly named venue for my conversation with Cynan Jones & Lloyd Jones about their novellas that were …
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