James Joyce was one of a long list of great writers who failed to win the Nobel Prize for Literature: Ibsen, Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Zola, Hardy, Henry James, August Strindberg…. Continue reading
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Poetry by Maria Wallace
this island scorns, defies life
from sunrise to the midnight moon
Bloomsday Events – Getting Up James Joyce’s Nose
James Joyce’s literary masterpiece IS to be sniffed at. Continue reading
Henry Lawson’s Irish Characters
Lawson used Irish characters in his multicultural cast as a literary device, in the main a comic one Continue reading
Poetry
Poems full of time telling of many stories and of many lives. Continue reading
Reading John Boyne
The book ties in to events and personalities of the time Continue reading
Alan McMonagle – A Young Writer to Watch
In any list of memorable opening sentences, Galway writer Alan McMonagle’s start to his first novel has to be up there with the best … Continue reading
Bloomsday 2017 – Getting Up James Joyce’s Nose
James Joyce, and Steampunk? Circus? Vaudeville? and the squiffy liffey, and worse? Continue reading
Anne Enright – Family and Fiction
‘This is an Irish novel that is afraid of nothing, least of all of being thought of as an Irish novel.’
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Anne Enright’s Families
Because our families contain everything and, late at night, everything makes sense. Continue reading
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