Colum Cronin tweetz:
An evening stroll around my neighbourhood in Dublin
Meanwhile…
Last night.
Blackrock, County Cork.
Tag Archives: Liberties
@broadsheet_ie Do these balloons count as ‘defiant tricolour’? Fallon’s had them up about a week before Paddy’s Day. They seem to have shrivelled further each time I pass but they are gamely hanging on pic.twitter.com/hM7iaIEsNW
— Colum Cronin (@ColumFromCork) March 31, 2020
This afternoon.
Fallon’s pub in The Liberties, Dublin 8.
Mmf.
Thanks Colm
Rob Cross tweetz:
My restored and colourised photo of a bustling Thomas Street in the Dublin Liberties with Meath Street on the right.I would date the photo as early 1970s going by Ford Cortina Mk lll that features in the photo which was launched at the 1970 Earl’s Court Motor Show.
Consternation has broken out in the Irish literary community with news breaking last night of Dublin independent publishing house Liberties Press instituting a €100 reading fee for authors’ manuscripts.
Liberties boss Seán O’Keeffe plays it off as covering costs and maintaining standards in this piece in the Irish Times.
“They are, of course, free not to send material our way. However, we have a hard-earned reputation as an innovative and successful publisher, and we believe that in a few years, this will be standard practice among publishers.
We receive hundreds of unsolicited submissions every year, and if this policy results in the number declining, that will be no bad thing.
We hope it will encourage authors to think carefully before submitting material to us, and to value the work we do.”
Irish lit Twitter is, of course, apoplectic. Writer and founder of Gorse.ie, Susan Tomaselli has been vocal since the story broke last night.
1/ “Ireland’s leading independent publisher” will be charging writers €100 to read manuscripts: https://t.co/twWMhhQgzA #libertiespress
— Susan Tomaselli (@STomaselli) October 7, 2016
2/ Problematic on a number of levels, not least because they don’t pay their published writers. #libertiespress
— Susan Tomaselli (@STomaselli) October 7, 2016
Writer Thomas Morris, currently of Faber Books, has his carefully-measured thoughts on the matter:
1. I think there is a fair model to be had where independent publishers could charge a fee for manuscript assessment/book reports.
— Thomas Morris (@tolmorris) October 6, 2016
2. It should, however, be in addition to the ordinary submissions route, which should remain free of charge.
— Thomas Morris (@tolmorris) October 6, 2016
3. The publisher could charge for a report and promise a yes/no response within a timeframe that’s quicker than the traditional route.
— Thomas Morris (@tolmorris) October 6, 2016
4. The fees raised should be used to pay the people writing the assessments – in most cases in Ireland, these people are unpaid interns.
— Thomas Morris (@tolmorris) October 6, 2016
5. Having said all this: I think such a model only works where a) the book reports are of quality, and b…
— Thomas Morris (@tolmorris) October 6, 2016
6. THE PUBLISHERS ARE DECENT PEOPLE AND PAY THEIR FUCKING WRITERS.
— Thomas Morris (@tolmorris) October 6, 2016
7. Sean O’Keefe operates in the same realm as Donald Trump – a land where he believes he can ride roughshod over everyone & everything.
— Thomas Morris (@tolmorris) October 6, 2016
8. Including staff, printers, freelance designers, his writers, and most statements of fact.
— Thomas Morris (@tolmorris) October 6, 2016
FIGHT!
A short documentary interview uploaded back in March featuring images from the late 60s and early 70s by photographer, naturalist and Coombe-born, Mick Brown.
Mick, who has lived in Pembrokeshire, West Wales for more than forty years, recalls his childhood and the street life of the Liberties in Dublin – an accompaniment to his book ‘Mick Brown’s Dublin: The Past has a Great Future’ .
(H/T: Liam Phelan)