Author’s Preface When my children were small I used to tell them stories of Jo Jo, an endearing but mischievous little girl of eight years. After my children grew up they asked me to write out these stories so that…
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The first music Derek Foley remembers in Peeling-Oranges is the sound of church bells (St Patrick’s cathedral in the Liberties). As he grows older he thinks that there is no pure sound and even bells have a ‘rhetoric’. As an…
5 december 2014 KAI Presents: Multifarious Author… James Lawless! Kev’s Author Interviews Presents:s author photo James Lawless Ireland Kev: In a generalized way, James, tell us a little about yourself. Where you grew up, siblings, family life, education, and how…
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Born in Sarajevo by Snjezana Marinkovic In this absorbing memoir, the author talks about her vocation to be a writer and her struggles with her stepmother’s disapproval and through the horrors of the Serbian war. Her parents separated leaving her…
The Nature of Sex A friend of mine recently tagged me in an online blogging chain called The Next Big Thing, a series of questions about writers’ next projects. The idea was to draw attention to writers and their blogs…
Tickling the Palate Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Eamon Maher (eds) Peter Lang, 235 pages, €35 The book is divided into three sections: Literary Representations of Irish Gastronomy, Culinary and Dining Traditions in Ireland…
Tuesday, 4 November 2014 GUEST POST BY IRISH WRITER JAMES LAWLESS My Guest this month is Irish Writer James Lawless, whose novel Peeling Oranges I so enjoyed and commented on, HERE http://lifetwicetasted.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/a-ommentary-on-peeling-oranges-by-james.html on Life Twice Tasted. Readers will be interested…
When I picked up a copy of Peeling Oranges by James Lawless, I was expecting a blood bucket of a revenge tragedy that IRA-UDA gang wars tend to produce. Upon reading the blurb that mentioned the Irish-Spanish connection, I figured…
A Commentary on Peeling Oranges by James Lawless The central character Derek, around whom Peeling Oranges is built, is reading yellowing letters from his mother, a heroine of revolutionary Ireland, to the man Derek thinks is his father, then in…