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NOTEBOOK: The Booker...and psychopaths
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Conan Kennedy's notebook.week to week.or maybe month to month if I'm busy. Wednesday, 7 August 2013. The Booker.and psychopaths. A countryman of mine has written a book called The Spinning Heart. It's longlisted for the Booker Prize, so that's good for the author Donal Ryan. Not that I quite approve. Of Donal Ryan writing books, him being a Civil Servant and thus what Dublin taxidrivers call a double jobber. How and ever, again. I'd never really heard of Donal Ryan, not paying much attention to liter...
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NOTEBOOK: NOW !
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Conan Kennedy's notebook.week to week.or maybe month to month if I'm busy. Saturday, 19 January 2013. As mentioned previous posting, the NOTEBOOK is closed.('tho you can still read the entries by scrolling around here).from now on such postings (as they are) will be on. Under the LATEST heading.thing is, if the thousands of people who have read NOTEBOOK over the past couple of years had bought books then I'd have the time to write more NOTEBOOK.but they haven't, and I haven't. View my complete profile.
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NOTEBOOK: January 2013
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Conan Kennedy's notebook.week to week.or maybe month to month if I'm busy. Saturday, 19 January 2013. As mentioned previous posting, the NOTEBOOK is closed.('tho you can still read the entries by scrolling around here).from now on such postings (as they are) will be on. Under the LATEST heading.thing is, if the thousands of people who have read NOTEBOOK over the past couple of years had bought books then I'd have the time to write more NOTEBOOK.but they haven't, and I haven't. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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NOTEBOOK: Killala Ghosts
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Conan Kennedy's notebook.week to week.or maybe month to month if I'm busy. Saturday, 17 August 2013. It's not often a British Union Flag flies over the streets of my home town of Killala in County Mayo. But there it is in recent days, a ghostly memory of different times. We are celebrating the events of 1798, when a French force invaded these parts to assist in the rising of the United Irishmen. Independence was well worth the struggle. The forces clashed in the town. Muskets crackled and cannons roared.
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NOTEBOOK: September 2012
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Conan Kennedy's notebook.week to week.or maybe month to month if I'm busy. Sunday, 30 September 2012. This much I know. I don't English speak very well. Whatam I talking about? Newspaper, that's what. It runs a column, or columns a run, if you prefer, entitled. This much I know. The content is the same old same old, a few hundred words by no you've never heard of them either. But the title of the pieces, that annoys me. It's pretentious and portentous and lots of other things ending in. Ah hah, I said to...
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Conan Kennedy interviews...: Mollie Malone, a statue.
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Mollie Malone, a statue. So, Mollie, how’s she cuttin’? I hear you're having a face or eh whatever lift somewhere. Part of the job Jimmy. Hoots mon the noo. I beg your pardon? Hoots mon the noo. It’s a Scottish greeting. AhI know.but I didn’t quite expect.and come to think.like I didn’t expect you to have a Scottish accent. Well you know quite well.where I come from.I was a character in a nineteenth century Scottish ballad. It’s ambiguous, isn’t it? So you keep up with the world of literature then? That&...
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Conan Kennedy interviews...: April 2014
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So, Anthony, how does it feel? What, how does what feel? How does it feel to be described as Ireland's foremost surviving man of letters? Like in the Sunday Indo. There you were. I quote. Ireland's foremost surviving man of letters. End quote. I see what they're trying to say. Well so do I, but it's a funny way of saying it, isn't it? It is the Sunday Independent. I suppose there is that. But tell me. Why isn't Ireland's foremost surviving man of letters writing in The Irish Times? I'm not sure if. Not f...
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Conan Kennedy interviews...: Sheila Pratschke, Chair of The Arts Council
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Sheila Pratschke, Chair of The Arts Council. Hi Sheila. I’d like a grant for my mother please. What does she do? I see What sort figure would you have in mind? I’m thinking in the region of fifteen and a half thousand euro. Ballpark. But I’ll leave the details up to yourself. I seewell.can you elaborate on the whole proposal? Certainly. I’d like to present my mother’s iconic performance as innovatively contextualising her role in the community. Fair enough. Where’s she based? Oh, does she work there?
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