August

Aug 6, 2022

This months edition features news of a literary festival brought back to life in the rollings hills of Leitrim, Ireland and memories of Vauxhall, Lambeth in the 1950’s as part of the London Culture series.

Drumshanbo Literary Festival* is at the end of August, highlights include a reading and conversation with author Claire Keegan who was the joint winner with Sally Hayden of the Orwell Prize 2022 for political writing and who wrote the short story upon which the hugely successful and Oscar nominated Irish language film “An Cailín Ciúinthe” was based.

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* the editor is part of the festival team

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Drumshanbo Literary Festival

CLAIRE KEEGAN COMES TO DRUMSHANBO LITERARY FESTIVAL Drumshanbo Literary Festival’s Written Word Weekend will return to celebrate Leitrim’s love for words. The festival was previously run from 2009-2012 under the patronage of the late Dermot Healy, a member of Aosdana and is set to relaunch the last weekend in August…

a year ago · Robert M Wray

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London Culture

After thinking about what London culture meant to me, having grown up there from the 1950s until the mid-nineties, memories of food and music began to dominate my thoughts and became the forces driving this piece of writing. The house I was born in, 8 St. Oswald’s Place, was compulsorily purchased by the local council as part of the Post War Slum Clearan…

a year ago · Julie Ward