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.
Finding out that Maud Gonne and Eavan Boland share a death anniversary got me thinking about the way each of these two great Irishwomen engaged with the concept of “Mother Ireland”.
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.
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
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.
Does Maud Gonne deserve a statue in Dublin? Of course she does and a group of writers and readers, artists … Read more
The launch of my epic Gonne-Yeats series is getting close. Seven years work is about to come together, with Book … Read more