Last Sunday, the inimitable poet and musician Ciaran Carson died after an illness. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, into an Irish-speaking family, poet Ciaran Carson attended Queen’s University, Belfast. He held the position of traditional arts officer of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland from 1975 to 1998 and was appointed director of the Seamus…
Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston continues my Northern Exposure series which highlight literature from Northern Ireland and is also, helpfully, one of my 20 Books of Summer! Jennifer Johnston’s fiction regularly deals with themes of memory, loss and an inability to come to terms with the past and Truth or Fiction is no different.…
Read more No 522 Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston (Book 6 of #20booksofsummer)
This has been the strangest month and I still haven’t managed to get myself organised to review and blog properly at all! Could I really still have a blogging hangover from all that work in March? I have been reading as much as ever, but my planning hasn’t been great and I have missed the…
It’s been another busy week for Reading Ireland Month and this week I concentrated on Non-Fiction, which is really flourishing here in Ireland! I reviewed: Notes to Self by Emilie Pine Bookworm: A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Patricia Craig Maeve Brennan Wit, Style & Tragedy: an Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke…
Maeve Brennan, like her fellow New Yorker writer Mary Lavin, is one of those Irish writers that everyone should have heard of, but whose body of work hasn’t received the attention it deserves. In Wit, Style and Tragedy: an Irish Writer in New York, Angela Bourke aims to redress that balance and to return Maeve…
Read more No 535 Maeve Brennan Wit, Style and Tragedy: an Irish Writer in New York by Angela Bourke
