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January 26, 2017
Forgotten Irish Booklaunch, Hodges Figgis, 26th January
Irish in the American Civil War
I am delighted to announce that the official Irish launch of The Forgotten Irish: Irish Emigrant Experiences in America will take place in Ireland’s oldest bookshop, Hodges Figgisof Dublin, on Thursday next 26th January at 6pm. The publication will be officially launched by Dr. Myles Dungan of the RTE History Show, who has himself been a trailblazer in popularising the experiences of the Irish in America. This book, which tells the stories of 35 different 19th...
Django’s Hand: The Story of Success
If you are looking for inspiration to boost your enthusiasm for following your dreams this year, you will find it in the story of the famous guitarist and banjo player Jean-Baptiste Reinhardt, better known by his stage name Django. Born on the 23rd of January 1910inLiberchies,Pont-à-Celles, Belgium,into a family of travelling Manouche Gypsy entertainers, Django Reinhardt had never had any formal education and remained functionally illiterate well into his adulthood. However, right...
Moll King, proprietress of King’s Coffee House in Covent Garden
‘What rake is ignorant of King’s Coffee House?’
(Henry Fielding, The Covent Garden Tragedy, 1732).
There are many tall tales told about Mary (Moll) King, shrewd businesswoman and proprietress of King’s Coffee House in London’s Covent Garden. Several sources also say that she was a pickpocket, stealing watches from ladies’ pockets, and spent time in Newgate for her crimes as well as being transported on more than one occasion, each time returning home to England post haste...
January 25, 2017
Recovering Palimpsests
I’m thrilled! The future is here! The speculation of yesterday is the modus operandi of today!
Early on in my blogging life I pondered the loss of Menander’s comedies. How could the works of possibly the most influential comic writer in antiquity have all disappeared? They had for a thousand years or so. Then they were rediscovered on an Egyptian palimpsest early in the 20th Century. I mused whether a technique would ever be developed whereby ancient Christian texts could be...
Star Wars – Empire Under Construction
Narrative theory is the academic idea begun by the Russian scholars Todorov and Propp and continued later by the American Joseph Campbell, that the same archetypes and story motifs and narrative structures appear repeatedly in fairytales and folktales in every culture.
With Star Wars everywhere in the news this week following the release of Rogue One and the tragic death of Carrie Fisher, let’s take a look at narrative theory through the example of Star Wars Episode IV –...
Be careful with what you buy and eat
How often do you check ingredients on the products before you buy them to put them on your and your loved ones plates?
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January 24, 2017
The Single Largest Problem of Most First Time Novels
All righty. So we have spent a couple of posts talking about getting our head right when it comes to doing this writing thing. Once we get our heads in the game, then the practical How To advice gets a heck of a lot more mileage. Today we are going to talk about the writing of the actual novel.
When I started out wanting to become a writer years ago, I was so clueless I didn’t even realize I was clueless. I had an overinflated ego from all those years making As in high sc...
Inez Milholland
The information about Inez Milholland which appears here is kindly taken from the InezMilholland.org website with their permission.
Inez Milholland was an Icon of the New Women in the early 1900’s. She was always known and publicized for her beauty and her brilliance. She was raised by socially-conscious parents and educated at Vassar where she became active in the Women’s suffrage movement and advocacy for the poor.
A rare woman, she earned a Law degree at NYU and promptly became involved...
One Victor… One King…
William; Duke of Normandy
with a strong Viking heritage,
promised English throne
on Edward the Confessor’s death.
Harold Godwinson stepped in
claiming the English throne,
backed by English barons
denying rightful heir; the throne.
Warrior against warrior
met upon the battle field,
the victors prize
the coveted English throne.
Roubo: From Start to Finish
Here locally, I get asked the following question a lot: How do you stay in business?
It’s a good question. When I explain Lost Art Press to Covington, Ky., city and business officials, they look at me like John and I must have some sort of trust fund that supports our chicanery. But nothing could be further from the truth.
The translation of “l’art du Menuisier” is a good case in point. The project began entirely outside of our grasp. In 2005, I was building French workbenche...
