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REVIEW: Shane Leslie, Sublime Faliure, by Otto Rauchbauer
04-May-2010 http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/review-shane-leslie-sublime-failure-by-otto-rauchbauer-2161733.html
Two reviews of Ireland's Royal Canal
13-Jan-2010
Irish Times book of the day
The Longford Leader review
Rediscover John Broderick with the Irish Times
08-Jan-2010 An Irishman's Diary commemorates the 20th anniversary of John Broderick's death. Eamon Maher speaks of the life and work of this Lilliput author.
THE ATHLONE novelist and Irish Times reviewer John Broderick (1924-1989) is a sadly neglected figure. Author of 12 novels and countless reviews and opinion pieces, the 20th anniversary of his death should not pass without some acknowledgment of his contribution to Irish letters. He took the public role of the writer seriously: he once stated in an interview with Julia Carlson that the Irish were “pathological” when it came to homosexuality and then took the daring decision to feature homosexual couples in several of his novels.
In The Trial of Father Dillingham (1982), for example, Maurice and Eddie look on their love “as a recompense which they owed to one another as outcasts and aliens in a hostile world”. Then in An Apology for Roses (1973) Broderick describes a steamy sexual relationship between a priest, Fr Tom Moran, and a parishioner, Marie Fogarty; a daring story-line for the time.
Broderick was also harsh in his criticism of the crass acquisitiveness that governed many of the merchant class to which he belonged (the family owned the biggest bakery in the midlands). He had an ambivalent attitude to Roman Catholicism. Greatly attached to the cadences and solemnity of the Tridentine Latin Mass, he found it difficult to warm to the liturgical changes introduced after Vatican II. He worried about the future of Western civilisation due to the erosion of public morality.
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Desmond Hogan
19-Nov-2009 Old Swords, Desmond Hogan's latest collection of short stories, is now available. For background on this brilliant and elusive Irish writer you can read the following article from the Observer.
Desmond Hogan article
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