This is the story of translating Riders to the Sea into Spanish. ‘Writing is, essentially, an exercise in introversion’. I...
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The Crashing of Shields & Teaspoons The man did all the normal things. A procession of tapas left idle on...
Cervantes and Lorca in Madrid - this was not the first time we had met. The first time I came...
I remember the one and only subject where I learnt something about the Basque language at school. My secondary literature...
Eamon de Valera and comely maidens. The title of this blog post will jump out at anyone who is Irish...
Hipster sausages, hipster prices - it's all food for thought. Excuse me dear, I'm hungry tonight. Leopold Bloom, Ulysses. (more…)
I live the following quote about Seamus Heaney in Madrid: It was by pressing hard against a pen, and not...
Words perched on branches; there are as many languages in the world as visions of the realities we live in....
Take a bow, Damien Duff. Damien Duff has been a lot of things: Irish flair player and captain, a title...
Then we raised a glass to JFK and a thousand more besides When I got back to my empty room...
