Each evening, from now until the end of Reading Ireland Month, I am going to post a piece of work by some of my favourite Irish poets. Enjoy x Going Without Saying by Bernard O’Donaghue i.m. Joe Flynn It is a great pity we don’t know When the dead are going to…
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Brian Friel is known now to the world as one of Ireland’s preeminent playwrights. However, in the mid 1960’s he was more concerned with the short story. It was a brief dalliance as, by 1968, Friel had stopped writing short stories altogether, in favour of writing plays. It is said that Friel found the process…
Read more No 490 The Diviner by Brian Friel #readingirelandmonth20
“Welcome to my house! Come freely. Go safely. And leave something of the happiness you bring!” For over 100 years, Count Dracula’s welcome has been gratefully accepted into our cultural imagination. Although not the first vampire story in literature, there is no doubt that Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel is the one that has had the…
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