Irish America
Irish America
One of the most auspicious debuts in published fiction this year is Josephine Hart's brisk novel, Damage. Critical plaudits and advance publicity have lifted the slim volume into various top-selling lists. Indeed, the almost indecent haste of its arrival has been pejoratively associated with the author's marriage to London public relations doyen Maurice Saatchi, to whom the … [Read more...] about Book Review | Damage
Mary Higgins Clark Publishing's favorite adjective is "best selling." But two authors on June's New York Times best sellers list had more in common than the success of their books. Both Mary Higgins Clark whose suspense novel Loves Music, Loves to Dance entered the list at number one and Anna Quindlen, whose coming of age story Object Lessons has been climbing steadily, … [Read more...] about Top of the Best Sellers List
One hundred years ago this month, Dr. Douglas Hyde [An Craoibhin Aoibhinn] visited the United States for the first time. He was in Boston and New York from June 3 to June 25 on his way home to Ireland from the University of New Brunswick in Canada where he had spent nine months as an interim professor of French, German and English literature. On the night of June 16 in New … [Read more...] about Book Review | Poets from the North of Ireland
For someone on a rigorous public relations schedule, Maeve Binchy is a remarkably personable interviewee. The Dublin author arrived in New York on a brief but hectic promotional visit for her new book Circle Of Friends and although she is pressed for time and does speak quickly, there is an unhurried air about her. I had never met Maeve before and felt that she conveys a … [Read more...] about The Readers’ Writer
Seamus Heaney of County Derry holds the professorships of poetry at both Harvard and Oxford Universities. In the big kitchen of his house in Sandymount, Dublin, Heaney stood very straight, feet planted well apart, as we talked about the genesis and production of his first play, The Cure at Troy, his poetic and imaginative reworking of Sophocles' Philoctetes. He talked about … [Read more...] about Seamus Heaney’s The Cure at Troy
