A disturbing new internet trend has emerged, with numerous support pages for James Holmes appearing on Tumblr. The Daily Shift’s Jessica Thompson investigates…
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Edited by Eva Bourke, Megan Buckley & Louis de Paor
With contributions from: Guinn Batten, Eoin Bourke, Eva Bourke, Edward Boyne, Ken Bruen, Megan Buckley, Sandra Bunting, Patricia Byrne, Laura Ann Caffrey, Moya Cannon, Louis de Paor, Theo Dorgan, Noel Duffy, Susan Millar DuMars, Trish Finnan, Ndrek Gjini, Michael Gorman, Eamon Grennan, Gerard Hanberry, James Harpur, Aideen Henry, Kevin Higgins, Rita Ann Higgins, Dillon Johnston, Hugo Kelly, Thomas Kilroy, Susan Lanigan, Irina Ruppo Malone, Molly McCloskey, Mike McCormack, Conor Montague, John Montague, Pete Mullineaux, Val Nolan, Mary O’Malley, Christian O’Reilly, Ruth Quinlan, Thomas Dillon Redshaw, Moya Roddy, Ailbhe Slevin, Jordan Smith, Deirdre Sullivan, Áine Tierney, Eamonn Wall, Christian Wallace, David Wheatley, and Vincent Woods.
It is now more than twelve years since Adrian Frazier arrived from the United States to teach in the English Department in NUI Galway at the height of a distinguished and varied career as a literary…
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Launch of Watching My Hands at Work: A Festschrift for Adrian Frazier, ed. Eva Bourke, Megan Buckley & Louis de Paor tomorrow evenining (thurs)
Posted: May 8, 2013 in book launchTags: Colour of Language, Drama, Galway, National University of Ireland Galway, Royal Irish Academy, Thomas Kilroy, Vincent Woods
Launch of Watching My Hands at Work: A Festschrift for Adrian Frazier, ed. Eva Bourke, Megan Buckley & Louis de Paor
Thursday, 9 May 2013
18:30
Charle Bynes Bookshop Galway City
Facebook event of the launch here
(from the event)
We are delighted to invite you to the launch of an anthology of poetry, fiction, drama, and essays honouring Prof. Adrian Frazier of the School of English at NUI, Galway. Celebrating Adrian’s extraordinary contribution to creative and cultural life in Galway, both within and outside of NUIG, this anthology features work by a lively mix of established and internationally acclaimed writers, popular members of the local writing community, and graduates of NUIG’s M.A. in Writing and M.A. in Drama programmes who are at the early stages of their creative careers. Published by Salmon Poetry, the anthology will be launched by poet, playwright and broadcaster Vincent Woods. We are gathering to honour Adrian’s unique and inspiring presence in Galway: join us for an evening of music, readings, refreshments, and general great craic.
Edited by Eva Bourke, Megan Buckley, and Louis de Paor.
Contributors:
- Guinn Batten
- Eoin Bourke
- Eva Bourke
- Edward Boyne
- Ken Bruen ( author of Jack Tayor novels and others)
- Megan Buckley
- Sandra Bunting,
- Patricia Byrne,
- Laura Ann Caffrey
- Moya Cannon
- Louis de Paor (Nui Galway Irish studies)
- Theo Dorgan
- Noel Duffy
- Susan Millar DuMars
- Trish Finnan
- Michael Gorman,
- Ndrek Gjini
- Eamonn Grennan
- Gerry Hanberry
- James Harpur
- Aideen Henry
- Kevin Higgins
- Rita Ann Higgins
- Dillon Johnston
- Hugo Kelly (Law Librian Nui Galway and Winner of New Writing Cuirt 2013)
- Thomas Kilroy (Playwright, former Professer of English NUI Galway )
- Susan Lanigan
- Molly McCloskey
- Mike McCormack ( short story writer from Galway)
- Irina Ruppo Malone ( English Department NUI Galway)
- Conor Montague
- John Montague
- Pete Mullineaux
- Val Nolan (http://illusorypromise.wordpress.com/ English Department NUI Galway)
- Mary O’Malley
- Christian O’Reilly
- Thomas Dillon Redshaw
- Moya Roddy
- Ailbhe Slevin
- Jordan Smith
- Deirdre Sullivan
- Aine Tierney
- Eamonn Wall
- Christian Wallace
- David Wheatley
- Vincent Woods(poet, playwright and broadcaster RTE Arts Tonight
Who is Adrian Frazier
Photo Credits english.artsci.wustl.edu/school of humanities nui galway
Prof. Adrian Frazier is a graduate of Pomona College (BA 1971), Trinity College Dublin (Diploma in Anglo Irish Literature, 1973), and Washington University in St. Louis (MA 1976; Ph.D 1979). He has been on the faculty at Nanjing Teachers University (1979-81), Union College in New York (1981-2000), and the National University of Ireland at Galway (2000-), where he is the Director of the MA in Writing and also involved in the MA in Drama and Theatre Studies He has published on Irish poetry, drama, and fiction of the 20th century. He was elected to be a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2012.
Adrian Frazier’s current teaching at NUI Galway includes courses in the history of the sonnet, the poetry and designs of William Blake, Yeats, Moore, and Joyce, Irish drama, writing from archives, creative nonfiction, and reviewing.
His research interests take in biography, nonfiction, poetic form, literary history, the teaching of writing, 20th century literature, Irish fiction, poetry, and drama, contemporary poetry, movies of ’Golden Age of Cinema,’ John Ford, W. B. Yeats, George Moore, J. M. Synge, and critical approaches rooted in Nietzsche, Freud, Marx, and Darwin (taken from NUI Galway staff page )
Vincent Woods
In recent years poet and playwright Vincent Woods has been a guest presenter on the arts programmes Rattlebag, The Arts Show and The Eleventh Hour. He worked as a journalist with RTÉ, presenting on Morning Ireland, until 1989 when he began writing full-time.
Vincent has won several awards for his writing, including The Stewart Parker Award for Drama, the PJ O’Connor Award for Radio Drama, and the M.J. McManus Award for Poetry.
His plays include John Hughdy/Tom John, At the Black Pig’s Dyke, Song of the Yellow Bittern, Fontamara, and for radio, The Leitrim Hotel. His poetry collections include The Colour of Language.
Vincent is a member of Aosdána.
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The Long Midnight Of Barney Thomson free on Itunes and other places such as Amzon.co.uk
Posted: May 6, 2013 in free crime ebookTags: Glasgow, Murder
The Long Midnight Of Barney Thomson
https://itunes.apple.com/ie/book/long-midnight-barney-thomson/id601167261?mt=11
Barney Thomson — awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber — lives a life of desperate mediocrity. Shunned at work and at home, unable to break out of a twenty-year rut, each dull day blends seamlessly into the next.
However, there is no life so tedious that it cannot be spiced up by inadvertent murder, a deranged psychopath, and a freezer full of neatly packaged meat.
Barney Thomson’s uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer…
Praise for Douglas Lindsay:
“Great fun and daft as monkeys” — Stuart MacBride, #1 bestselling author of BIRTHDAYS FOR THE DEAD
“The plot, Russian literature fans, is a modern spin on Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The bloody ending, movie buffs, is pure Reservoir Dogs.” – The Mirror
“This is pitch-black comedy spun from the finest writing. Fantastic plot, unforgettable scenes and plenty of twisted belly laughs.” – New Woman
“This chilling black comedy unfolds at dizzying speed…an impressive debut novel.” – Sunday Mirror
“Gleefully macabre, hugely enjoyable black burlesque.” – The Scotsman
THE BARNEY THOMSON novels in order:
#1 THE LONG MIDNIGHT OF BARNEY THOMSON
#2 THE BARBER SURGEON’S HAIRSHIRT
#3 MURDERERS ANONYMOUS
#4 THE RESURRECTION OF BARNEY THOMSON
#5 THE LAST FISH SUPPER
#6 THE HAUNTING OF BARNEY THOMSON
#7 THE FINAL CUT
Also look for THE END OF DAYS, a standalone Barney Thomson novella that can be enjoyed at any point in the sequence.
About the author:
Douglas Lindsay is the author of the Barney Thomson crime series and three other novels: THE UNBURIED DEAD, WE ARE THE HANGED MAN, and LOST IN JAUREZ. Also look out for his short stories: THE CASE OF THE STAINED GLASS WIDOW and SANTA’S CHRISTMAS EVE BLUES. Douglas lives in Somerset.
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Posted: May 6, 2013 in Uncategorized
The launch of ROPES 2013 received quite a bit of media attention!
A review at The Ranting Beast: http://therantingbeast.com/book-review-ropes-2013-coming-of-age/
An article in The Galway Independent: http://galwayindependent.com/20130424/educationtraining/literary-launch-S16767.html
And coverage in The Longford Leader: http://www.longfordleader.ie/lifestyle/entertainment/longford-students-at-the-helm-of-prestigious-third-level-publication-1-5032768
Mariah Carey get’s a little help from her American Idol friends on new album
Posted: May 6, 2013 in UncategorizedCorporate America Sucks—Seriously; A Writer’s Tale At Self-Discovery
Posted: May 6, 2013 in UncategorizedA Writer’s Tale At Self-Discovery form confessionsofaliterarygoddess
Okay so ranting about corporate America is not new, and certainly not literary minded. It is however a story—and for a while it was my story, so I suppose I should go into the details about that. Rarely do I divulge biographical data (privacy and trust are two fundamentals for me), but this played such a big role in my life. My journey into pursuing my writing career rests largely on this incident, so I feel compelled to share this tale.
Several months ago I quit my office job. It wasn’t a plushy job, and certainly not one that left me sleeping in a bed of money. But it was a job—a job; a treasured commodity in these tough economic times. I of course had other resources, and no issues with food and shelter (which if you do, think HARD before you consider making such a jump). My…
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View from Carousel Creates Crime Writing Workshop
originally from http://www.writing.ie/guest-blogs/50-shades-of-crime/
Last Saturday on a beautiful sunny morning in the Dublin Mountains, I met an amazing bunch of crime writers at Carousel Creates workshop. Having a secret ambition to be a teacher from when I was a child, I apologise if I slipped from being a facilitator to a bossy teacher at times!!
We had a jam-packed day, starting out with the essential elements of crime writing, followed by crime scene/forensic evaluation, and the ‘why and how’ of research. After that we all had a well earned lunch at the beautiful Carousel Writing Retreat, and were able to step outside and enjoy a mountain view filled with bird song and crime writers chatting.
After lunch there was no room for any slackers (there were none!), as we embarked on getting to grips with dialogue, and an exercise which evolved changing gender, age, temperament and point of view, all with a view to creating effective dialogue/characters. We had a ghost called Sarah who infiltrated the writing exercise earlier in the morning, being replaced by the influence of 50 shades of crime in the writing material!! You know who you are 
Much earned coffee/tea followed, after which we looked at pitching your novel, learning about the current market, and finally for those fun loving creative souls within the group, how to make your own novel trailer!
All in all it was a fab day, and I thoroughly enjoyed it, especially meeting such a talented and enthusiastic bunch of people.
We will run the workshop again later in the year, so keep an eye out for that!
I’ll be doing a shorter workshop as part of World Book Night at Tallaght library this week. It is booked up already, but again I’ll keep you posted of upcoming events.
Finally, thanks to Carolann Copeland of Carousel Creates for all her amazing work on the day.
about the author Louise Phillips
Born in Dublin, Louise Phillips is the crime writing mastermind behind writing.ie’s Crime Scene blog. She began writing in 2006 when her youngest son turned thirteen. Since then, Louise has won the Jonathan Swift Award with her story Last Kiss. She was a winner in the Irish Writers’ Centre Lonely Voice Platform, short-listed for the Molly Keane Memorial Award, Bridport UK, and long-listed twice for RTE Guide/Penguin short story competition. Louise has been published as part of many anthologies, including County Lines from New Island, and various literary journals. In May this year she was awarded an Arts Bursary for Literature from South Dublin Arts Council.
Hachette Books Ireland bought Irish and UK Commonwealth rights for Louise’s debut psychological crime novel Red Ribbons, which was shortlisted in this year’s Irish Book Awards for Best Crime Novel of the Year 2012. Louise’s second novel The Doll’s House will be published in 2013. Red Ribbons centres on the abduction and murder of a 12-year-old school girl and the main character Kate Pearson, a criminal psychologist who is drafted in by the police to help them find the killer. Ciara Doorley of Hachette likened Phillips to Sophie Hannah and Tana French, and said: “Louise is a supremely talented writer. She subconsciously creates parallels between her characters, and this really challenges the reader. Her writing is tense, atmospheric and we’re really delighted to have launched this a new voice in Irish crime.”
The View from The DJ booth 