Patricia’s Blog
Happy Christmas one and all.
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This morning I watched online as crowds at Newgrange gathered to experience the coincidence of a winter solstice and lunar eclipse only to be disappointed when snow clouds prevented the blended light of sun and moon from seeping though the passage tomb. Out the window a blackbird chases a robin from the bread I’ve left under…
Read MoreIn Mark O’Rowe’s feverish 2007 drama, Terminus, there is an image of a man dangling from one of the multitude of construction cranes on the Dublin skyline. The crane became an icon of construction-fuelled Celtic Tiger Ireland. The post below conjures the nostalgic image of Christmas festive lights on a construction crane smiling warmly…
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This is my half-dozen list of books from Ireland or by Irish writers that I think would make great Christmas gifts. And not a whiff of misery writing about the rise and fall of the Celtic Tiger or the sorry IMF/ECB bailout. Emma Donoghue’s Room was my book of the year before it won the Hughes & Hughes…
Read MoreWorld Book Night | A million reasons to read a book. Welcome to World Book Night. The inaugural World Book Night will take place on Saturday, 5 March 2011, two days after World Book Day. With the full support of the Publishers Association, the Booksellers Association, the Independent Publishers Guild, the Reading Agency with…
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I seemed to loop my way around the North of Ireland to make my first visit to Inishkeen and the Patrick Kavanagh Festival this weekend. I first travelled north by Ben Bulben to Letterkenny, past mile after mile of election hoardings for that day’s by-election; my destination a North West Words event at Cafe Blend, Letterkenny, that has to be…
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This Irish Citizen found hope from an unexpected source in a week when four children died violently in rooms at their homes and the IMF and ECB arrived in Ireland. My source of hope came from Emma Donoghue’s novel Room. In a 12-ft square room where a sky-light gives the only glimpse of the outside world, a young…
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How to Get Yourself Off Your Lazy Butt and Start Writing Already. Thoughtful and provocative suggestions in this Blog on starting and keeping a writing routine. Summed up in make it your goal that you will START to write. Maybe you have suggestions to add.
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