Irish serial killer memoir is almost definitely a hoax
It’s been nine years since James Frey admitted that A Million Little Pieces got billed as a memoir because he couldn’t get it sold as a novel. Nine! That’s enough… Read more »
Independent Irish publishing house de Selby Press launches in Paris
Two booksellers at Shakespeare & Company in Paris have announced the launch of de Selby Press, an independent publishing venture that is currently fundraising to publish its first project. The… Read more »
“Vartan af Godot””: A Yiddish production of “Godot” goes to Ireland
This is the third year of “Happy Days,” the annual Beckett festival in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, and this year the festival has a new addition: the first-ever Yiddish production of… Read more »
Ireland to consider ending censorship of books
Ireland’s Republican party, Fianna Fáil, has introduced a motion to disband the Irish Censorship of Publications Board which, if successful, would end just under a century of literary censorship. The… Read more »
Central Bank of Ireland misquotes Ulysses on commemorative coin
“I fear those big words,” says Stephen Daedalus, early in Ulysses, “that make us so unhappy.” Stephen, of course, isn’t referring to words like “onomatopoeia” or “honorificabilitudinitatibus,” but to words with… Read more »