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Justin Quinn says (drb blog, Jul 16th) that I sound like “an unreconstructed Irish nationalist” – which is not, admittedly, quite the same as saying that I am one.
Whatever I may be or may be called, in the time that I have been commenting on Irish history, cultural debates and music I have called [...]
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Amazon buys AbeBooks
Amazon is buying rare and out of print books specialist AbeBooks for an undisclosed sum. The takeover, which is subject to regulatory approvals, is expected to be completed during the fourth quarter of 2008.
AbeBooks’ website has been trading since 1996 and has 13,500 bookseller members, who pay a monthly subscription fee to list their books. [...]
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Jonathan Swift Celebration
The Peacock Theatre invites participation on Sunday in a discussion on Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, with writers Victoria Glendinning, John Mullan and Bruce Arnold. It will be chaired by
Mary Shine Thompson.
Poet, polemicist and wit, Jonathan Swift is best known for his satirical
masterpiece Gulliver’s Travels. Its unerring gaze on man’s limitless
capacity for fruitless intrigue remains strikingly [...]
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An exchange on Ezra Pound
I am grateful for Stephen Wilson’s review in drb no 4 of my Ezra Pound: Poet (A Portrait of the Man & his Work): I The Young Genius 1885-1920.
There are two matters of fact I’d like to comment on.
1. Stephen Wilson wrote: “There is however little evidence to support the claim, made by Moody and [...]
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free lecture and reading
Wednesday 27 June 8pm Free Public Lecture & Reading:
Alice McDermott: Between the lines in Irish-America: the charm of not
saying.
Room G32, National Concert Hall Building, Earlsfort Terrace.
Alice McDermott is the author of six novels, the latest of which, After
This, was a finalist for the 2007 [...]
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drb: readers’ comments
Delighted with the site; downloaded three articles for later reading – Tom Inglis, Peter Brooke and the Politics of Assimilation by Maurice Earls. Like the clean design of the site – and the content!
BO’R, Tralee
I wish you well with the drb, which is welcome. You should have included a little bit of background about Kapuscinski. [...]
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Copyright Worries
From The Bookseller, 16th March 2007
Writers must unite to fight for the importance of copyright in a rapidly changing digital world.
At a recent authors’ copyright debate Maureen Duffy called on delegates to rededicate themselves to the cause of copyright as still the only way to secure the financial return necessary to keep writing.
Author [...]
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