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To celebrate its 80th birthday, Penguin Books has launched a nifty, minimalist ‘Little Black Classics’ series of short stories and poems – 80 titles for 80p (€1.10) each.
A similarly nifty website allows readers to browse the titles online.
Peig Sayers in happier times
Further to recent neo-Gaelgoir revisionism.
A case for the ultimate Blasket case.
Author Sarah Baume writes:
It doesn’t matter to me that she didn’t place her own words down on paper, for this is only one element in the process of writing. Elegant prose it isn’t, but there are few authors with a more authentically Irish voice. Though much of what she described was unrelenting hardship, she was, by all accounts, pragmatic and cheerful in the face of it. Peig Sayers spoke for generations of poor, uneducated Irish women who never had the opportunity to speak for themselves….
TROID!
In praise of Peig Sayers, by Sara Baume (IrishTimes)
Go raibh maith agat Ultach
La Casa
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The Balint House in Valencia, Spain, designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos.
This afternoon.
The launch of World Book Day (which takes place tomorrow) an initiative ‘to encourage children to explore the pleasure of books and reading’.
Authors Shane Hegarty (Darkmouth); Derek Landy (Skullduggery Pleasant) and David O’Doherty (Danger Is Everywhere) joined a flock of Educate Together bookworm tearaways in Trinity Hall, Trinity College, Dublin
Pic 2: Shane Hegarty and Kathy Moore; Pic 3: Derek Landy with Ella Gremms; Bottom pic, adults from left: David O’Doherty, Shane Hegarty, Erika McGann, Steven Butler and Derek Landy with tykes, from left: Sayo Owolah, Ali Khan, Aansa Irfan, Luke O Beirns, all rom Educate Together, Balbriggan, Co Dublin.
(Mark Stedman/Photocall Ireland)
A Friends of the Elderly Ireland production.
A four minutes tale of the unexpected.
Director Evan Buggle writes:
Here is the 3rd instalment of the Irish Short Stories web series. Every week we visit elderly people in their homes and document anecdotes of what it was like living in Ireland many years ago. friends of the Elderly Ireland has 390 volunteers who visit 510 elderly people who are confined to their homes or whose social life is limited by mobility challenges.
Previously: Frank’s Story
