Circe is an episode written as a playscript, even if a playscript gone troppo.Hallucination is its own reality. Continue reading
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Time Gentlemen, Please: Is James Joyce dead?
Straight and dead he may be, but Joyce was from the race of the colonised, not the coloniser; of the oppressed class; not of ‘English’ literature, any more than Swift, Wilde, Shaw, Yeats, Heaney. Continue reading
Reflections on Beckett provoked by ‘Dance First’
Beckett’s life, gravely played by Gabriel Bryne, unspools magnificently in a sequence of austere performed memories. Continue reading
Pummelled by Mother-Love
Soldier Sailor is the kind of book I’d have devoured as a first-time and very bewildered mother navigating the new regime of extreme highs and lows of mother-love. Continue reading
Two Irish Booker Finalists
The Booker is an annual literary award presented to the novel judged to be the most outstanding published in Great Britain and Ireland. Continue reading
The Failure of the Socialist Dream in the Free State
Dermot Bolger’s novel deals with the decline of the landed Anglo-Irish class, the rise and fall of Soviet-style Socialism in Ireland after the establishment of the Free State Continue reading
My Flowergirl
She blushes slightly at me, but I won’t say it – you’re too young to be smoking. Continue reading
My Book of the Year
An outstanding novel by an Australian now living in Ireland. Continue reading
Living In Ireland
Two book reviews about memoirs, about writing, and about death and strong women. Continue reading
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