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Post by manho on Mar 31, 2010 9:09:53 GMT -5
thanks for all the work, conk. i should have known someone with your surname would have more than a bit of the blarney in him.
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Post by manho on Apr 3, 2010 12:58:57 GMT -5
'The first third of the novel deals with his return to Ireland as part of John Ford's entourage: having scooped Henry up from the Utah desert, the great director has promised to use his life story in the movie he's putting together, The Quiet Man. Henry is enraged when this John Wayne vehicle turns out to be a serving of tourist kitsch, though he was warned of Ford that "no one is as sentimental as the Irishman who was never there in the first place".' www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/03/dead-republic-roddy-doyle-review |
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Post by david on Apr 3, 2010 13:38:15 GMT -5
Real Irish people have a generally low opinion of The Quiet Man, but that's because it's not really about Ireland at all, it's about Irish Americans' fantasy vision of Ireland. And in that sense, it's brilliant. Also, the idea that Ford's westerns offer an uncritical version of American history could only be said by someone who wasn't paying attention when they watched them.
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Post by digit on Apr 6, 2010 14:34:45 GMT -5
Return to the WildeDublin's One City, One Book festival is dedicated to Oscar Wilde and The Picture of Dorian Gray, says Andrea Byrne  By Andrea Byrne Sunday March 28 2010 Given that he is one of Ireland's best known and most-loved literary figures, it is entirely fitting that this year's Dublin: One City, One Book festival should be dedicated to Oscar Wilde. For the uninitiated, the festival, now in its fifth year, is designed to encourage everyone in the city to read the same book at the same time, discuss it and also to use the facilities of their local libraries. This year's chosen book is Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, which for many provided a real insight into the author himself. The novel was actually used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895, so not only is it a wonderful read but it also boasts historical significance. According to Jane Alger of Dublin City Libraries, the main organiser of the event, the primary objective of Dublin: One City, One Book is to "showcase the talents of Dublin's writers and to encourage everyone to read the book and engage with it through a wide variety of events. Oscar Wilde is one of Dublin's most famous writers, though better known as a dramatist. The Picture of Dorian Gray is his only novel so I suppose you could say it selected itself." For the entire month, events are organised throughout the capital, catering for adults and children. Whether it is watching a performance of some of Oscar's famous plays, engaging in a weighty academic discussion about the novel, taking your child to The Happy Prince or strolling around Wilde's Dublin on a lively walking tour, there is something for everyone. In what promises to be a festival highlight, Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's only grandson, will discuss his view that Dorian Gray was a major contributor to his grandfather's downfall. Commenting on the growing success of the festival, Alger says: "Experience so far over the five years of Dublin: One City, One Book shows that the range of events intrigue people and make them want to read the book. Increased book sales and library borrowings as well as media interest show that this strategy works. Last year Dracula was the most borrowed book in libraries in Ireland in April. It also sold out in many bookshops." Almost all the events organised are free to the public. However, such is the demand that pre-booking is essential for a number of key events. A new edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray has been published by Penguin Classics, priced at a very affordable €9.99, to coincide with the beginning of the festival. "A bit like Dracula last year, many people think they know the story because it has been featured in many films and the theme (selling your soul) is a widely used one, however there's nothing like reading the original," Jane Alger encourages. Dublin: One City, One Book runs for the month of April. For a full list of events see www.dublinonecityone book.ie
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Post by david on Apr 6, 2010 22:21:02 GMT -5
Great moments in Irish cinema #14: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFLzshUZXZMWould you believe Gene Wilder as an Irishman? Of course, he also played a character named Leo Bloom in The Producers . . . |
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Post by digit on Apr 9, 2010 18:34:05 GMT -5
April 9th, 1962: Portrait of the artist as being 'very demanding and spent money like water'Fri, Apr 09, 2010 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Sylvia Beach, the owner of the Parisian bookshop Shakespeare Co and first publisher of James Joyce’s Ulysses , was interviewed in her 75th year in Paris by Peter Lennon, the Irish journalist and filmmaker, for the Guardian . This is an extract from the interview which was published subsequently in today’s Irish Times in 1962. – YOU HAD the feeling that if you asked her to do a jig, she’d be up like a shot. A friend told me that quite recently he had seen her swinging away at a pile of wood with a great big axe nearly as big as herself. She was watching me closely and came out with a direct answer to my thoughts: “Joyce always said that I had great energy. Let’s hope, he would say, Sylvia’s energy will never diminish. And it hasn’t! Do you know he was nearly going to take this place [her apartment] one time? When I was living downstairs in the bookshop he sent his son to have a look at it. But it wasn’t modern enough for him. There is no bathroom you know . . . he had very high-falutin’ ideas. “I thought he never had much money?” “He hadn’t – not until towards the end when Miss Weaver took care of him. She never wanted it to be known how much she gave him but I can tell you it was a perfect fortune. But when he came here from Trieste he had nothing. I helped him a lot. But he was very demanding and spent money like water if he had it. He would come to me and say: ‘Sylvia, it’s my birthday and I have nothing for my guests, would you advance me something?’ And of course I had to. But he wouldn’t just give them sandwiches like anyone else – oh no, he had to have the caterers in. Every time he travelled with his wife and family, he always put up at palaces. He liked the grand style. “He was supposed to have had a beautiful singing voice?” “He thought so, anyway. He thought that he and John McCormack should have had twin careers . . . You know anyone who took up with Joyce had to take care of all his problems. He was very demanding. He thought that people had nothing else to do but read his books. If you did anything for him you did everything. Just like a nurse with a child.” She laughed. “Sometimes I would want to get away for a few days to a little cottage in the country but Joyce would want me to stay and take care of his business. When I would go he would pursue me. He would bombard me with letters and telegrams. I never saw such a man! He was a perfect octopus!” “Didn’t people get tired of his demands?” “Ah no! We liked him too much. And he was perfectly charming. Mind you, he was not liked at dinners and things like that because he had no small talk, but with people he knew, he was a delightful man. And then he was a great worker. In Trieste he worked for hours in the Berlitz to support his family and then wrote his books at night. Nothing could put him off – even failing eyesight. He still worked on when he was practically blind. I helped him because he helped himself. He was never a slacker. If he was,” she said with the air of a severe schoolmistress, “I would never have helped him. He did great work. He gave himself to his work and expected you to do the same . . . Finnegans Wake – you could swim around in that! I thought Yeats was pale beside him. “They always said that Joyce was very nice the way he would never say a bad word about anyone else’s writing, but the truth is they never existed for him. He only read his own work. Of course, he had reading he loved, and when, for example, his daughter was illustrating Chaucer, he would read Chaucer, but he never read the new stuff.” -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- url.ie/5jmf© 2010 The Irish Times
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