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- James Joyce’s Dubliners
Fri, May 18, 2012Dublin Writer’s Museum Until May 31. A Full Day’s Epic: 10am (Sun 11am) €19/€15. A Half Day’s Adventure: walks begin 10.30-11.30am or 4-4.30pm (Sun 11am- 11.30am, 4-4.30pm) €12/€10
wentertainment.ie - You’ve read the book. Now meet the authorSat, May 12, 2012 LOOSE LEAVES: Good to see bookshops fighting back against online sales with their trump card: author events. Readers may remember that when the now-closed Waterstones first came to Dawson Street in Dublin, its evening readings were lovely social events that were always packed out: a win-win for visiting authors and the bookshops.
- UK wholesaler given Irish library contractsSat, May 5, 2012 LOOSE LEAVES: Who’d have guessed that the route of a new Irish book to the local library would be via Norwich, in England? Yet this is what is going to happen in three local-authority areas since South Dublin County Council, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and Fingal County Council decided last month to award their library-supplies contract, worth more than €500,000, to the UK company Bertram Library Services.
- Mary Lavin: an arrow still in flight
Mon, Apr 30, 2012IN SOME of the most memorable moments of the 1992 RTÉ film An Arrow in Flight: A Tribute to Mary Lavin, the twice-widowed Irish writer, who would have been 100 on June 10th, recounted her love story with Michael Scott, the Australian Jesuit priest who became her second husband. - Loose LeavesSat, Apr 28, 2012Can you illuminate a grey area?
- Literary line-ups in place for festival season
Sat, Apr 21, 2012 LOOSE LEAVES: The all-Ireland battle of the literary line-ups is beginning in earnest as the festival season warms up, starting next week in Galway at Cúirt International Festival of Literature. This will be followed by Listowel Writers’ Week, in Co Kerry (May 30th to June 3rd), Dublin Writers Festival (June 4th to 10th) and West Cork Literary Festival (July 8th to 14th).
