Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan Twelcomed Ireland’s leading writers to Iveagh House to mark “21 years of partnership between the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and Ireland Literature Exchange in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Iveagh House, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.
Nice pad, in fairness.
From top: (l-r) Sinead Mac Aodha Director of Ireland Literature Exchange, John Banville, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan Anne Enright, Inaugural Laureate for Irish Fiction and poet Eilean Ni Chuilleanain; Banville, Enright and Ni Chuilleanain.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall ireland)
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They shouldn’t be holding books, rather blunted versions of the knives they use to tear each other’s reputation apart.
Why do writers always look as though a second-hand clothes shop threw up on them?
Because most writers aren’t rich.
Writers cosying up to government. There used to be a time when Irish writers had spines.
Jay. Sus.
I, for one, welcome our new literary overlords.