Con was not at home when his brother Thady called, so Thady went on a pub crawl, starting with Saints and Sinners in Woodside and on to the old haunts: Quinlans in Rochester and Rosie O’Gradys on Seventh Avenue. God,…
Priceless! A book for a lifetime. Couldn’t have asked for more! “Up here” she pointed to her head, “We all are beautiful”. James Lawless – I’m mesmerized. Francis Copeland, a middle-aged man working as a librarian in The Avenue. It…
Freddy is playing with his own ball again. He is playing football with a group of boys on the green near the pylon. Freddy is quite skilful with a ball; he tackles well, he has fast feet despite the flapping…
Delighted to see my short story Night Watch published in the prestigious literary journal The Honest Ulsterman which is now online. Prose – Honest Ulsterman http://humag.co/prose/night-watch#.V_uM5XH5u00.twitter …
I will be signing copies of my new novel American Doll, which is shortlisted for the Carousel Aware Prize, in Maynooth Bookshop at 3 pm next Monday (10/10/16) in the company of my namesake James Lawless TD. If you are…
A story of mine and poem of political nature published in issue 12 of Levure Litteraire (Known in English as Literary Yeast – in its electronic version, dealing with generalist and multidisciplinary specificities of the present cultural field in the…
AT WHAT AGE DO YOU CREATE YOUR BEST WORK? Michelangelo, Goethe, Rembrandt, Victor Hugo, James Lawless, Titian, Immanuel Kant, Rabelais, Benjamin Franklin, Carlo Gebler, Cervantes (can you spot any odd ones out?) all did their best work after middle age.…
The Kindle Scout campaign for American Doll is now over and is awaiting review. Thanks to everyone who nominated it.
Clearing The Tangled Wood: Poetry as a Way of Seeing the World For sale at a special limited offer of half price for paperback and Kindle amazon.com 27– 31 January and on amazon.co.uk in paperback 27 January — 7 February…
A HEIGHTENED STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS James Lawless Our thoughts are often clouded and gnarled by our environment; our concentration and feelings can be affected by whether we are at ease or not, or by the attitude of peers etc. So…