Queer Love: There aren’t many books that focus on gay people
The new fiction anthology includes work by the likes of Colm Tóibín, Emma Donoghue and John Boyne
Paul McVeigh edited the Queer Love anthology.
Fri, 05 Mar, 2021 - 20:19
Marjorie Brennan
When Paul McVeigh was growing up in Belfast, the library was a refuge from the febrile atmosphere on the streets, a difficult home life and the kind of trouble being an effeminate boy got you’ . However, even in that ‘safe space’, he struggled to find stories that represented his life and experience, especially from an Irish perspective.
Thursday TV Tips: Would you go for sea views or cosy village life? the search for a new home for Clonakilty mum and son in Goodbye House; and Pacific Rim: The Black drops on Netflix
Goodbye House: Ciara Byrne
Caroline Delaney RTÉ One, 8.30pm
In the first episode Ciara, a mother and managing director of a global technology firm from Clonakilty, Co Cork, is looking for new home for her and son, Adam. Recently divorced, she’s ready for a fresh start but giving up the house she once believed would be her forever-home is bittersweet. With €350,000 to spend, Ciara would like a three- or four-bedroom house in a safe community where both she and her son Adam can entertain their friends. To help find what she’s looking for Ciara’s recruited three of her closest friends: Deirdre, Caroline and Niamh. Deirdre opts for a modern family house in a development; Niamh unearths a three-bedroom bungalow with sea views in the small coastal community of Ballinglanna while Car
Book review: The thread of neutrality between US and Irish diplomats in the 1930s
The author, Bernadette Whelan, is professor emeritus in history at the University of Limerick, and no stranger to Irish foreign policy
Éamon de Valera making a radio broadcast to America as part of the ‘Salute Of The Nations’ programme on January 9, 1939. Picture: Keystone/Getty Images
Sat, 27 Feb, 2021 - 20:00
Review: Frank MacGabhann
Bernadette Whelan
£75.00
AT first glance Éamon de Valera and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) make odd bedfellows in the title of a book. However, during the time period concerned, the 1930s, there is a thread connecting them, but a thread that will become so threadbare that it will eventually all but snap. That thread is neutrality. In de Valera s eyes, it was a principle, especially once he realised that collective security under the League of Nations was no more than an empty phrase once Mussolini s Italy invaded Abyssinia in 1935 with impunity. In FDR