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November 2008
The Archives
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11.28.08Some Velvet Morning…... when I'm straight. Continue Reading...
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11.27.08The View from TuesdayTuesday's The View is now online. Myself, John Boyne and Jeananne Crowley talking books.
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11.26.08The Spooky Art“In everything any man wrote...is contained...the allegorical idea of his own future life, as the acorn contains the oak.” – Arthur Rimbaud Strange but apparently true: songs can be predictive. They process the hidden impulses and undercurrents at work in a songwriter’s life, sort through the evidence, and make eerily accurate prognoses of what will come to pass. Perhaps the creative side of the brain, the night-side, knows what is before us, even as our waking consciousness cannot or will not acknowledge portents of the catastrophes ahead. “Sometimes songs are postcards from the future,” Rosanne Cash wrote in a blog for the ...
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11.25.08More Wails From The Crypt…The strange tale of Vincent Molloy, aged 7.
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11.24.08The View: Books SpecialPM will be on The View panel on RTE 1, this Tuesday, November 25, talking books. On the slab: Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book, the new Sony Reader gizmo, and the Fenton Gallery's lavish tome Representing Art in Ireland. He'll also be selecting his favourite books of the year: The Arrival by Shaun Tan and The Braindead Megaphone by George Saunders.
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11.22.08The Boiler Rooms of the Damned“Before fatigue brings boxers to the boiler rooms of the damned, they live at a height of consciousness and with a sense of detail they encounter nowhere else. In no other place is their intelligence so full, nor their sense of time able to contain so much of itself as in the long internal effort of the ring. Thirty minutes go by like three hours.” – Norman Mailer, The Fight.
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11.20.08Henry Rollins’ Alternative UlsterRollins, from the Huffington Post: "Northern Ireland. I have been to Northern Ireland many times and it's always been a great experience. I have only been there for a day at a time for a show and then onto the next place. The people are very friendly and it's one of the better audiences you'll get on a tour. In all my visits there, I have never asked anyone about the history of the place, not wanting to bring anyone's blood to a potential boil. That being said, I have always been curious about Bloody Sunday, The Troubles, the IRA and what ...
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11.18.08Dublin Writers’ SeminarFriar Murphy will be appearing at the Dublin Writers' Seminar on Friday November 21 at European Union House on Dawson St, Dublin. He'll be reading from John the Revelator, alongside Julia Kelly, author of With My Lazy Eye. Kick off is at 12, following a talk and reading by Tenderwire author Claire Kilroy.
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11.18.08Lorca’s Novena“Manuel Torre, a man who had more culture in his veins than anyone I’ve known, on hearing Falla play his own Nocturno del Generalife spoke this splendid sentence: ‘All that has dark sounds has duende.’ And there’s no deeper truth than that. "Those dark sounds are the mystery, the roots that cling to the mire that we all know, that we all ignore, but from which comes the very substance of art. ‘Dark sounds’ said the man of the Spanish people, agreeing with Goethe, who in speaking of Paganini hit on ...
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11.17.08Love Hurts…... and Nancy sings.