Having a receptive eye to one’s immediate surroundings, and then being able to translate this into words while treating the subject with keen sensitivity is a rare gift, but one which poet Mary Guckian possesses. Originally from Kiltoghert in Leitrim, Mary has travelled the world,
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Supported by the Arts Council and DLR Libraries, Murder One, Ireland’s International Crime Writing Festival, returns to Dublin for its 7th year with a host of not to be missed events, talks, masterclasses and workshops taking place in Dun Laoghaire’s landmark DLR Lexicon
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We all know who Count Dracula is, we’ve seen the movies, put the fangs in at Halloween, maybe even read the book, but did you know that the Irish author Bram Stoker was a regular around Ringsend back in the 1800’s? Nope? Me neither! Local historian Eddie Bohan,
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During the Halloween period the ever-popular Bram Stoker festival returns. It not only caters to bibliophiles and writers, but expect a variety of vampire and horror-based activities as well. The festival, which celebrates one of Ireland’s most famous Gothic writers Bram Stoker,
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It happened several years ago. I marched into the Workmans Club and instantly felt out of place. “These are not my people; this is not my music.” And then it hit me. I had become the very thing I promised not to: old. Or, at least, older. Losing hair in familiar spots and finding hair
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In 1977 The Blades played their first ever gig as a then six-piece band at the teenage disco run by the residents association. The line up that night was the late and sadly missed Laurence Cleary, his brother Paul Cleary, Pat Larkin, Johnny Burke, Joe Donnelly and Liam Fagan.
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