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October 26, 2015
Doing it with Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Carolann Copland
From Dublin, Ireland, Carolann Copland is the founder ofCarousel Creates,a writers’ centre in the Dublin Mountains. She has a Bachelor of Education in English and Drama and has been a teacher for sixteen years. Her first book,Summer Trianglewas published byEmu Inkin October 2013, followed by Scarredlaunched in June 2015 and a third novel is currently underway.Carolann has also lived in the Middle East and the United Kingdom. She is married to Neil and is a mother of three children aged twelve...
October 21, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: The Dubliners Dilemma
One of my roles as a [peculiar] Librarian is to workon The Kildare Readers Festival and recently,in closing the festival with a fabulous fringe event,we co-hosted The Dubliners Dilemma in partnership with The Riverbank Arts Centre.
This one-man show is an adaptation of James Joyce’scollection of short stories, Dubliners, performed by award-winning playwright and actor, Declan Gorman.Through letters between Joyce and his publisher, Grant Richards, thestage is set for a mesmerizing performance...
October 20, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: Niceville
“…a city of around ten-thousand people, a Forties-style Deep South town with live oaks in the shady squares, Spanish-moss hanging from the branches, blue-and-gold street cars rumbling over the pavements, the down-town streets stitched together by overhead power lines and trolley wires, graveyards for the Confederate Dead and those misguided Union boys …”
Niceville,itis not, neither the novel, the town, nor most of the people that reside there,so for the purposes of a chilling read, it does e...
October 5, 2015
Doing it with Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Vanessa Gildea
Vanessa Gildea studied film as part of a Liberal Arts Degree at the University of Limerick. Subsequently she worked in film training for nine years, mostly for Filmbase. She has directed short documentaries for Amnesty International Ireland and award-winning Dublin based production company Venom Films. In 2006 she wrote and directed the Irish Film Board funded short film ‘The White Dress’ which won numerous awards (Best Short Film Foyle Film Fest, Belfast Film Fest, Cinema Tout Ecran Geneva,...
October 4, 2015
PIXER KNOWS! The Story so far…
PIXER KNOWS! Caroline Farrell.2015
The classic Wizard of Oz meets myths and legends from the Celtic Tradition, PIXER KNOWS! tells the fantastical taleof young Irish Traveller boy, Mikey Joyce, 11, and his two best friends, Jaybee [Jacinta] and Paulie,whom together, enter the Otherworld of Pisreóga to track down an ancient Celtic warrior, Fionn MacCumhaill.
Their quest – to persuade the reluctant hero to help them rescue a displaced princess, free the children of Pisreóga from the evil druid D...
September 30, 2015
Arkyne, Story of a Vampire: Reviews and Links
The Reviews
“A gripping story, combining Celtic magic with horror and adding its own twist to the vampire genre. This is far from just another vampire story, far from a love story and takes the reader to new realms altogether. The tradition-swathed Irish island of Inis Mor provides the perfect backdrop, as a dark history envelops two young lovers and the fearsome, but compelling, daemon Lucius is unleashed. Farrell is an exceptional story-teller, her characters vivi...
Doing it With Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Hazel Gaynor
Hazel Gaynor is a novelist, freelance writer and author of New York Times best seller and RNA Historical Romantic Novel of the Year, THE GIRL WHO CAME HOME, and new novel, A MEMORY OF VIOLETS. Originally from Yorkshire, England, she now lives in Ireland.
Welcome to the series, Hazel. Let’s begin with your writing journey so far…
I’ve always written in one form or another. Even when I spent a late gap year in Australia in 1997 I did a correspondence course in creative children’s writing. I nev...
September 23, 2015
Doing it with Passion! Writers in Ireland Series: Louise Phillips
LOUISE PHILLIPS is an author of psychological crime thrillers. Her debut novel RED RIBBONS was nominated for the Best Irish Crime Novel of the Year 2012, and her second novel, THE DOLL’S HOUSE, won the award in 2013. LAST KISS, her third novel was also shortlisted. Louise’s work has formed part of many literary anthologies, and she has won both the Jonathan Swift Award and the Irish Writers’ Centre Lonely Voice platform, along with being shortlisted for the Molly Keane Memorial Award, Bridpor...
The Librarian’s Cellar: The Game Changer
The latest novel from psychological crime author, Louise Phillips, The Game Changer weaves an intricate mystery involving childhood secrets, blocked out memories and the world of mind-bending cults. Add to that a trinity of locations, Dublin, New York and a remote island off the coast of Ireland, all linking to a common denominator, Kate Pearson, criminal psychologist and protagonist of this and each of Phillips’ previous books. As Kate is plagued byher growing awareness ofa childhood trauma...
September 20, 2015
The Librarian’s Cellar: Older Than Ireland
I had the pleasure of attending a special screening of Alex Fegan’s (The Irish Pub) new documentary, Older Than Ireland. Introduced by Miriam O’Callaghan, and with the director and most of the centenarian cast and their families present, the film is an insightful and entertaining study that features the oldest Irish person on record, 113-year-old Kathleen Snavely, Ireland’s oldest man, 108-year-old Luke Dolan, as well as an awesome cast of inspiring characters, all 100 years old, and all from...
