By Dominic Hyde

My favourite memories of Maeve Binchy? I don’t even know where to start.  Not having met her  But I think like many she was to me my mother, my sister my granny, my Great Aunt Ursula. If any of these four women were kindly multi-millionaires. Instead of blood sucking alcoholic wrecks. And so what if she sold books? That was her job. I think it was Tom Clancy who said (cont. pages 1,2,3,4,5, etc.)

 

He [Tom Murphy] is the artist most of us Irish writers look to for inspiration and example. Thus, it will be fascinating to see three of his plays directed by {Garry] Hynes at the Lincoln Center Festival, July 5 to 14. The plays deal with loss and emigration, and dramatize illusion and self-delusion. Hynes’s method as a director is forensic: she strips away, using her sharp sense of the abiding power of the theatrical image, cajoling actors toward the emotional and intellectual core of a play. In the past, Hynes and Murphy together have produced the very best of Irish theater. Re-united, they are likely to cause sparks to fly.

 

From Galway To Broadway (Colm Tóibín, Vanity Fair,)

Photographed for Vanity Fair by Donald Milne at Dunguaire Castle, Co Galway.

A bit of success and look what happens.

Like Heaney and Meatloaf back in the day.

And we all know what happened there.

Dude Looks Like A Poet: Backstage With Aerosmith And Paul Muldoon (New York Observer)

Paul Muldoon?

Thanks Larry

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-A9saAWvns

Not as boring as it sounds.

Joss Walsh writes:

Here is Ross Harte out in Howth harbour [Co Dublin] last Sunday, showing us how his skill and control of the kite can take him to any environment or location.

 

Judge Mary Devins was told on Friday last that time was given to decide if there was a suitable Polish charity. “There is, it’s called social welfare,”

 

Judge refuses To Grant Money To Polish Charity (Mayo News)

With apologies to Linehan & Mathews

Thanks John Moynes and Justin Mason

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