Search Results for 'Guy De Maupassant'

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Books - personal landmarks on life’s landscape

“MY OWN books I packed up in cases and sat on them, or dined on them. Books in a colony play a different part in your existence from what they do in Europe; there is a whole part in your existence where they alone take charge of; and on this account, according to their quality, you feel more grateful, or more indignant with them, than you will ever do in civilised countries.”

The Shadow of Pádraic Ó Conaire

FAMILY FOLKLORE has it that when Pádraic Ó Conaire was broke, a fairly frequent occurrence by all accounts, he would approach the grandfather Tom ‘Cork’ Kenny, co-founder and editor of the Connaught Tribune, hoping he would publish a story in the paper and pay him.

From these acorns...

THE VOLCANIC ash and the cultural cavalry - the writers all over the country who stepped in enthusiastically to substitute for the writers whose flights were cancelled - grabbed the headlines at last month’s Cúirt.

Literary dolmens

SLOWLY BUT surely the men and women e writings made Ireland one of the greater global cultural centres from the 1960s to the 1990s are gradually passing on.

 

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