Northern Exposure: No 498 Ratman’s Notebooks by Stephen Gilbert
Mother says there are rats in the rockery. ‘You’ll have to do something about them,’ she says, ‘or they’ll over-run the whole place.’ Ratman’s Notebooks was published in 1968 and was one of only four books that Stephen Gilbert wrote before he stopped writing altogether. The fact that it is still in print is probably…
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Ciaran Carson, 1948 – 2019
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…
The Jewel by Neil Hegarty
Northern Exposure: Belfast Stories edited by Lisa Frank & Paul McVeigh
No 522 Truth or Fiction by Jennifer Johnston (Book 6 of #20booksofsummer)
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.…
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Catching up with two mini reviews!
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…
Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel #readingirelandmonth19
Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics by Van Morrison #readingirelandmonth19
#readingirelandmonth19 Week 4 round-up!
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…
