Blue Mercy Wins Firebird Book Award
Very pleased to find out that “Blue Mercy” is a winner again, this time it’s The Firebird Book Award as a first-place winner in the Mystery category.
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Very pleased to find out that “Blue Mercy” is a winner again, this time it’s The Firebird Book Award as a first-place winner in the Mystery category.
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After the success of my book trailer for A LIfe Before, I’m now putting together another, this time for Blue Mercy. Here’s the audio, as scripted by Arth of BookBarns.
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This is the first update about the campaign to see a monumental statue of Maud Gonne in O’Connell St, Dublin … Read more
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Thank you for attending my St Patrick’s Day talk “More Than A Muse: Maud Gonne and the Poetry of WB Yeats” at Kino-Teatr, St Leonards on Sea
Maud Gonne was a formidable activist and generous philanthropist, whose feminism and nationalism altered the course of Irish history, but she is still best known as the muse of the first Irish nobel laureate for literature, the great poet WB Yeats. This post is about some of the poems she inspired.
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First in a series of events to launch my novel series about the great activist and poet, Maud Gonne, and the poet she inspired, WB Yeats. I’ll be doing online events mostly, but I’m starting at home, closing out the Irish Film week at Kino-Teatr with a talk: More Than A Muse: Maud Gonne and the Poetry of WB Yeats. Kino-Teatr is a magical corner of culture and they are currently fundraising.
Tomorrow is International Women’s Day and I’ll be using it to write to Minister for Media in Ireland about the … Read more
I believe Maud Gonne deserves public honor from Dublin for her social and political achievements yes, but her statue is particularly timely now. She embodies the sort of objections those in power use to keep out those who are different–female, queer, colored, disabled or outsidered in some other way. As a young woman she was dismissed as a rich English spy or a self-serving drama queen by unsympathetic nationalists. After she died she was dubbed a liar by unsympathetic scholars. In between she was always seen as “too” something. Too bloodthirsty, too divorced, too radical, too English, too feminist, too self-promoting, too extreme, too pathetic. Today, she is too anti-Semitic. The “More Than A Muse” campaign will highlight not just her many achievements but also the many ways she was unduly vilified.
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