The international aspect of the Cuirt International Festival of Literature in Galway is a less pronounced this year than in the past. Poet Ingrid De Kok is here from South Africa; her most recent book is Seasonal Fires: New and Selected Poems, available in the U.S. I heard good comments about [...]
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Congratulations to Samantha Hunt for having her novel The Invention of Everything Else shortlisted with the work of five other fiction writers for the 2009 Orange Prize. The prize is awarded annually for the best work of fiction by a woman writer from anywhere in the world. The author is the sister of singer-songwriter Amy [...]
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The Cuirt International Festival of Literature opened Tuesday evening with a launch at the bright, modern City Museum overlooking the Corrib River where it flows into Galway Harbor. Welcoming speeches, wine and canapes were the features pointing the gathered literature lovers toward a week of engaging readings and other events, and maybe took Irish minds [...]
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In Dublin last week I walked up to the Unitarian Church by Stephen’s Green for the launch of Chris Agee’s book of poems, Next to Nothing. This is his third book of poems and it deals with the time following the death of his daughter Miriam at age four in 2001. The poems, [...]
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If you’re ever in Ireland the latter half of April, you ought to visit Galway and the Cuirt International Festival of Literature.The festival, which begins on the 21st this year, is six days of events, mostly readings by poets and writers, but also some interviews, panel discussions, a lecture or two, book and magazine launches, a [...]
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One of the themes of this year’s Cuirt International
Festival of Literature is that of the eyewitness to
history–to war, human rights violations, atrocity.
An impressive lineup of writers have shared their
knowledge and their views in readings, talks and
interviews.
Samantha Power’s most recent book is Chasing the
Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save
the World, a political [...]
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The visitor from Nantucket believes therehaven’t been as many American tourists inevidence in the museums and cafes of Parisor in the pubs, movie houses and theatres ofDublin as one would expect. Perhaps it’s hisimagination. Perhaps it’s the cost of buyingeuros with dollars. In any event he has left Dublin (where a pintof [...]
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An American visitor to Dublin tagged along with a Dubliner friendone evening last week to attend a talk at the National Print Museum(as in printing presses and newspaper history) located at the formermilitary garrison buildings at Beggar’s Bush. The talk, given by FelixLarkin, was on The Freeman’s Journal, the main Irish Nationalistnewspaper, published [...]
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