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READ A LOVE STORY FOR VALENTINE

  • Posted on February 14, 2019
  • by James Lawless

Read a love story for Valentine. Is love stronger than ideology? How does Derek Foley’s love for the supreme ideologue Sinéad pan out in Peeling Oranges? What was the tragic ending in the love affair between Guido and the beautiful…

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Let it snow and curl up with a thumping good read by the fire

  • Posted on January 23, 2019January 23, 2019
  • by James Lawless

For Love of Anna For Love of Anna is a glowingly reviewed and brilliantly written thumping good read of love, tragedy and corruption in high places, ideal for snowy nights by a log fire. When university student Guido van Thool…

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HOW RUDOLPH THE REINDEER GOT HIS RED NOSE

  • Posted on December 24, 2018
  • by James Lawless

Jo Jo and the Deer One day near Christmas Jo Jo was on her way into the woods. The woods were at the back of her house. Her daddy was at work and her mammy was talking at the front…

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The Widow’s Consoler now an audiobook

  • Posted on December 13, 2018December 13, 2018
  • by James Lawless

I am delighted to announce that my ebook short story The Widow’s Consoler (available on Kindle and other epub devices)is now for sale as an audiobook. After the death of her invalid husband, a widow’s previously suppressed feelings for her…

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Award-winning story Lovers who wound blame it on the storm in Italian & Portuguese

  • Posted on November 27, 2018November 24, 2020
  • by James Lawless

I am delighted to announce that my award-winning story Lovers who wound blame it on the storm which won the WOW Award has been translated into Italian & Portuguese. Available on Kindle and other epub devices. ‘Amanti che biasimano la…

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Problems with Motor Cars

  • Posted on November 21, 2018November 21, 2018
  • by James Lawless

My first motor car was an old Morris Minor. I got it in the seventies and I could drive anywhere in it with impunity: into town, on dates, to the mountains and the sea. There was never a problem with…

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Noise & Sound Reflections now on audio

  • Posted on November 9, 2018November 11, 2018
  • by James Lawless

Noise & Sound Reflections now on audio Ironic as it may seem I am delighted to announce the publication in audio of my book, a meditation on noise narrated impeccably by Gareth Richards. What is noise? What happens when it…

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Poetry Reading from Rus in Urbe

  • Posted on September 27, 2018
  • by James Lawless

I will be reading some of my poems in Irish with English translations from my collection Rus in Urbe to mark International Poetry Day on 28th September in the company of other Irish and Latvian poets. It would be great…

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Correction

  • Posted on September 11, 2018September 11, 2018
  • by James Lawless

Sorry, my last blog should read seventeenth anniversary not eighteenth.

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The Rose of Tralee

  • Posted on August 21, 2018
  • by James Lawless

When Laura was chosen as The New York Rose for the Rose of Tralee festival, she was twenty two. The choice was influenced no doubt by her Irish dancing ability and prowess in Gaelic—an American girl who could be an…

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