Literary(文学的) festivals are all over the UK and Ireland this month.Here are four of them. Hay Festival Set on the beautiful Wales-England border,this year's Hay Festival includes travel writer Kapka Kassabova delivering the 2023 Jan Morris Lecture,Ray Mears discussing the British woodland,...
The supernatural never seems far out of sight in Ireland, and it creeps in here and there during “The Eclipse,” a dark romance set at a literary festival in the County Cork cathedral town of Cobh. I’m not sure it’s required, but it does little harm. The story centers on a quiet...
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It is summer, the end of term approaches, with it a change of school and an end to our morning meanderings. This new distance too great to travel by foot. Today we are late, as always. We are always borderline late. A familiar array of faces punctuates our journey; the veiled mothers...
We also run the Polari Prize awards for books which explore the LGBTQ+ experience, by writers born or based in the UK and Ireland. The 2023 prize winners were announced last November at The British Library Curated and hosted by author Paul Burston, Polari has appeared at arts centres,...
A trip to Ireland to visit family members was a high point of her year. “I went to some amazing places in Ireland’s literary history, including Trinity College, the house of Bram Stoker, author ofDracula, and the National Library of Ireland, which had breath-taking exhibit of the life...
And a visit to the unique qualities of modern Mid-Ulster English in Ireland, and on the hand of the dead Native American Atakapa vocabulary and grammar. P. E. Caquet’s Opium’s Orphans stands out as a potentially history-changing work, if it succeeds in reaching the public with its ...